1. Welcome to the 3rd annual- Youth Virtual Conference of the UNU RCEs: Energy and Sustainability Moderator: Ryan Huppert Technical Coordinator: Vince St. Germain Host Partners: City High Middle of GRPS, Grand Valley State University, and RCE Grand Rapids

2. YVC Objectives This conference seeks to give students the perspective and practice of a global dialogue, in hopes that they will better understand the unique energy dilemmas facing the regions of the world and in turn reveal and embrace the universal themes of sustainability through dialogue, empathy, and collaboration. *Students-please focus on aspects of sustainable solutions that are universal and applicable across regions and peoples!

3. YVC Site Locations

4. Conference Agenda Presentation Order: RCE Grand Rapids, MI USA (10 a.m.) RCE Minna, Nigeria (4 p.m.) RCE Portland, OR USA (7 a.m.) RCE Bogota-Medellin, Colombia (9 a.m.) RCE Curitiba, Brazil (12 p.m.) La Paz School, Potrero, Costa Rica (9 a.m.) Followed by moderated dialogue/Q &A Conclusion and closing remarks

5. Rules of Engagement Use only one microphone and one audio speaker per room – multiple, presenters will share the single microphone Mute microphone when not presenting to prevent feedback Encourage and assist your students to pose rich questions!!! Write them down to save for the dialogue portion after presentations. During dialogue: Questions will be posed to each site by other sites clicking the “hand” icon on their screen and then waiting to be called on to pose their question out loud. We will run through this portion in the same order as the presentations.

6. Welcome to the 3rd annual- Youth Virtual Conference of the UNU RCEs: Energy and Sustainability Moderator: Ryan Huppert Technical Coordinator: Vince St. Germain Host Partners: City High Middle of GRPS, Grand Valley State University, and RCE Grand Rapids

7. Dialogue/Question and Answer During dialogue: We will run through this portion in the same order as the presentation order (City High, Minna, Portland, etc…) Questions will be posed to each site during this time by other sites clicking the “hand” icon on their screen and then waiting to be called on to pose their question out loud The answering site will respond and we will move onto the next question in the queue until finished with that site We will move onto the next presenting group to respond to questions asked of them until through with all groups

8. Conclusion and Closing Remarks Youth are the next world leaders! A HUGE THANKS to all participants and partners! Certificates of Participation for all participating students to be sent out, please e-mail me the names and appropriate postal address Fourth Annual Youth Virtual Conference of the RCEs next March will focus on CLIMATE! Stay tuned! This conference recording will be available at… http://www.grandrapidsrce.org/youth-virtual- conference/