Governor's Institute

This week we had the awesome opportunity to give a workshop at the Governor's Institute of Vermont Current Issues and Youth Activism Camp. (Eek, that's a mouthful). This is 10 day program for motivated high school students who really want to get into the issues and learn how to be activists. In other words, cool kids like us.






We focused our discussion on narrative--as in, telling astory. This is something we think about a lot at Race to Replace. How do we get people (specifically, young people like us) interested in clean energy? On top of that, how do we get them involved? Telling a good story is half the battle. A lot of the kids at GIV (thank god for acronyms) have experience with activism in high school so this is something they can relate to. And they're also really good at it. Probably better than we are. I mean, they convinced us that we should be making wigs for penguins (see photo), so I'd say they're pretty damn good.

After the workshop we went swimming and hung out in Brattleboro. We also found free bread, which was probably the highlight of the trip. Check out the following baguette inspired shenanigans.