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Contact your Regional Coordinator or a National Coordinator listed below if you feel that you need some help with either the collection, calculation or reporting of your school's data. The Green Cup Challenge is about schools guiding schools to reduce their resource consumption.  Your success is our success!

Verifying the Top Reducing Schools.

We are asking schools with large increases or decreases in their energy use (>20%) to  verify their results.  Such large changes are rarely seen with behavior changes alone and are likely due to major initiatives by the school.  For example, a school with a large kWh reduction may have made extensive improvements over the past year such as replacing windows, replacing  HVAC equipment, or installing solar panels.  

Top schools in each region and all schools with changes from baseline >20% should submit a brief explanation of their results.  Click here to see the on-line form.  We will post the success stories of our top reducing Green Cup Challenge schools on our website.

Time-line for GCC Wrap-up.
Tuesday 2/14  

- Results for Week 3 posted on the GCC Results page.  

        - Schools with apparent data errors are highlighted in red.

        - Schools with changes from baseline > 20% are highlighted in orange.

Friday 2/18

- Final meter reading.  It is very important that this is done exactly 4 weeks from your initial meter reading.

Sunday 2/20

- Video voting ends.  Vote here. 

Monday 2/21

- All schools submit Week 4 usage and top reducing schools submit explanations.  It is very important that schools submit their Week 4 usage ON TIME.  Late data submissions will make it difficult to determine the final results. 

Tuesday 2/22

- Tentative Week 4 results are posted on GCC website. Results are unofficial until verified by Regional Coordinators and explanations of reductions have been received and reviewed.

Friday 2/25

- Final results are announced on Website!!!

See the fantastic videos created by Green Cup Challenge schools. Vote for your favorites on the GCC Video Page. Everyone can vote - students, faculty, staff, administration, graduates, family, and friends. More than 1,900 people have already voted.   

Let people know on Facebook, Twitter, and share the link with others.  Here are some comments we've received about the videos:

All of the videos were so good. Thank you all so much for making an effort to help our environment.

So much fun. This is a great way to spread awareness.

It's a wonderful, creative way to spread the word about environmental concerns!

Excellent and creative minds abound in our next generation.

There are some very good videos, it has been an eye opener for me, my son practices going green at school, we will bring that into our day to day living :)

Very creative. I'm always impressed with what students can do!

Clever. wonderful project. It has motivated our whole community.

Enjoyed watching them all....It shows a great concern from the future generation and how they feel about the world they live in.....

Very well done. These students are very talented and creative!

Totally amazing! I'm very proud of my classmates. :)

The videos I voted for, in my opinion, were heart felt. The videos are excellent examples of our young people caring what happens to this wonderful earth. I am grateful for these young people who truly care and are willing to do something about it. Thank you, thank you.