High school senior Piotr Lesnicki’s idea was to use drones and AI technology to collect climate change data faster for quicker responses during a climate event, such as a flood or a storm.
Another senior, Bill Wang, demonstrated a model he built of a “breakwave” system to protect the Jersey Shore and other coastlines by breaking powerful waves and generating electricity from their kinetic energy.
Lesnicki and Wang, soon to graduate from Bergen County Technical High Schools, presented recently to a room full of curious K-12 educators at a Rutgers University workshop on how to teach kids about climate change.
Rutgers is a partner in implementing a new state requirement that climate change education should be included at the K-12 level across school curricula, part of the latest standards adopted by the New Jersey Department of Education.
The state adopted the new standards in 2020,…
