Boca Raton News: Summit School kids take lead on World Environment

World Environment Day was established by the United Nations in 1972 and is observed the week of June 5 each year to promote environmentalism and save the planet.

At Summit Private School in Boca Raton, Upper Elementary students, ages 9-12 attended the Montessori Model United Nations conference and created resolutions to help reduce global warming by utilizing renewable sources of energy and focusing on energy efficiency.

Ricky Rose, a 5th grader, is taking action. At the recent Upper Elementary Science Carnival, Ricky shared his original idea to sequester carbon dioxide from the air, compress it into dry ice and then implant dry ice into glaciers to lower the melting point of the surrounding ice and therefore slow or even prevent the melting of the earth’s glaciers.

Ricky said he wants to be a scientist one day and hopes the world will benefit from his ideas.

Gatlyn Ligon, also a fifth grader, is another student compelled to make the world more energy efficient. Her science experiment was based on how to utilize solar energy to reduce the need for electricity.

She created a solar oven and then discussed the idea of harnessing the energy generated while the oven is not in use.