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Youth and Education: Get Charged
Get ready, get set, Get Charged!!
Flint Energies Partners with Discovery CHANNEL School to Help Middle School Students "Get Charged!" About Electricity
Middle schools in Houston, Taylor, Peach and Crawford counties have been
selected to take part in a new educational initiative sponsored by Touchstone Energy Cooperatives®, in partnership with Coastal Electric Cooperative and Discovery Channel School, provider of educational materials to schools nationwide.
The Get Charged! program - which provides basic information about
electricity, how it works and how to use it - was administered through
Flint Energies, part of Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.
Middle school students throughout the area have access to the program,
which provides a variety of educational tools - including videos,
CD-ROMs, a Teachers Resource Guide, student activity books and other
collateral materials - all at no charge - to augment the existing
curriculum.
In support of its ongoing commitment to community service, Flint
Energies launched the Get Charged! program to give students a real-world
understanding of power, the purpose of electricity, and the important
role electric cooperatives play in delivering the "juice" that runs
their everyday lives.
Discovery Channel School products have been developed by the world's
most respected brand for television quality and recognized by leading
educational groups for their excellence. Drawing on Discovery's
award-winning programming for much of its content, the curriculum and
materials used in the Get Charged! program were developed specifically
by Discovery Channel School for classroom use and comply with National
Science Education Standards. The Get Charged! program represents a
first-time partnership for Discovery with a non-educational entity to
provide content directly to schools.
"Lots of kids are still in the dark about electricity," said Paul
Thomas, vice president, Discovery Education. "We're delighted to partner
with the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives to help get kids energized
about power."