Everybody just showed leadership in this project. We were all devoted to it and determined to succeed and make it happen. 
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CCC Update December 2009
Posted on: December 18 2009
Congratulations to students who completed the CCC Film Challenge in November and submitted films within the eighty-four hour production period. All films are now featured on the front page of CTStudentFilms.org. The next challenge is scheduled for March 2010!
E-Commerce Entrepreneurship students from Berlin, East Haven, Lyme-Old Lyme, Hartford Pathways to Technology, Manchester, Nonnewaug, Northwest, and Stonington attended the second meeting of the year at CCSU on December 17th. The students worked on their presentation, marketing, Web design, and digital communication skills in a variety of breakout groups. They also gained some more experience developing theoretical green-themed products and services. The audience at large selected a number of winners for the 30-second commercial challenge and best two-minute business "elevator" pitch.
On December 14th, students in the Bio21 course met at Central Connecticut State University. The students participated in working breakout sessions related to engineering design, digital simulations and prototyping, WordPress skills, presentation skills, marketing and effective leadersh
On December 11th, the E3/DMC students from the New Haven Metropolitan Business Academy and Bethel High School met for the first time at Manchester Community College. While working in collaborative groups the students engaged in a challenge to solve a global issue while creating a sustainable world. The keynote speaker was was Laurel Kohl, Education Specialist from the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University. Laurel gave a presentation about the importance of building a sustainable world. Students will meet again in February of 2010.ip. These sessions help to prepare the students for the second phase of their year-long project that begins in January. At the end of the day, selected students from each school presented their biomimicry projects to the audience.
Ten schools in the ITR&D course also met at CCSU on December 4 to showcase green-theme computer games created by individual students. The top five games, as judged by peers, were pitched by their designers to the full audience, who voted by text message to select the winner. Click HERE to play one of the final games!