Press Release: Footprint Partners with the IEA to Launch a 60 Day Carbon Footprint Challenge Across KAO Honors Societies!
Footprint App Inc. and the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association (IEA) are partnering to launch a 60 Day Carbon Challenge across the IEA’s honors society, Kappa Alpha Omicron! Our goal is for college students to tackle climate change by adapting to new sustainable habits both on and off campus while also strengthening their chapter engagement and comradery across the honors society.
The IEA serves as an academic home for university students across the country that study in the fields of environmental science and interdisciplinary studies. The honors society is designed to offer a web of academic support and professional development to its students. This includes organizing chapter activities and inviting students to present their undergraduate research at their annual academic conference.
At large, the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association is an international nonprofit committed to scholarly research and discussion with academics, researchers, and civil societies and institutions that are passionate about and have a stake in understanding our biggest environmental and human threats by using an interdisciplinary approach.
During the 60 days, students will log their daily consumption and complete in app challenges that are aimed at changing daily behaviors to form alternative, planet-friendly habits. Each chapter will also participate in a unique chapter challenge which is designed to encourage community service and outdoor adventure while learning a new skill, discovering a new hobby, and fostering stronger relationships within each chapter.
“I am most looking forward to the unique chapter challenges because our KAO societies span across the US and every state has different environmental and community needs that our chapters can attend to”
“I am most looking forward to the unique chapter challenges because our KAO societies span across the US and every state has different environmental and community needs that our chapters can attend to” says Olivia Cason, the community outreach coordinator of the IEA and lead organizer of the KAO 60 Day Carbon Challenge.
Not only will the wide range of geographic backgrounds make the competition more intriguing, but the diverse range of academic studies from Environmental Science and Policy to Coastal Marine Biology and Public Health, will also elicit different student experiences and chapter strategies making the overall challenge rich in both educational value and personal growth.
While the Footprint App initially launched as an educational tool for classrooms K-12, it has since adapted it’s curriculum to meet the needs of university classrooms. The 60 Day Carbon Footprint Challenge will help the company obtain a better understanding of the already existing attitudes college students have about climate change, and track new information about how likely they are to adapt new habits and use the available resources of the application.
Dakota Stomer, CEO of the Footprint App, “the IEA organization is filled with bright, inspiring young leaders, and I am excited to see the impact we will make together. Footprint App, Inc. is here to help IEA collectively combat climate change and engage the next generation of climate leaders.”
The competition kicks off on March 1 and will run until May 1, 2021. Over the course of two months students will reflect on their experiences and share their chapter progress with the IEA which will be displayed on the IEA’s KAO webpage and in their monthly newsletter. To learn more about the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association visit their website at ieaonline.org and to follow the progress of the competition, subscribe to the IEA’s newsletters at the bottom of their homepage!
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