Senior project letters of intent and mentor contracts are due:

NO LATER THAN Wednesday, October 5th!
You can download a template of the letter of intent here.

A Senior project mentor contract here

and a Junior project mentor contract here

For the complete senior project instructions, including time card, click here

Junior / Senior Projects

Every WISE student needs to do an environmentally themed project this year. Scroll down to find a list of more than 30 pre-approved student projects with contact information. Sign up with Mr. Lands and get extra credits for working on your project!

List of "pre-approved" Junior / Senior Projects!

Learn about solar power

Help the town of Windsor with composting

Hillary Shephard

Recycle Outreach Coordinator

Redwood Empire Disposal

North Bay Corporation

(707)588-3684 - office

Learn how to build with Cob!

Do you want to learn to build a bench, oven or other Earthen structure? Learn how and then then do it. Check out the website below

http://www.livingearthstructures.com

Work at the SRJC experimental “Shone Farm”

They need 6 interns for project work dealing with sustainable agriculture. Projects can turn into paid summer work. Juniors may progress from junior project to paid summer work to senior project.

Best to start this project right away and get your hours done before its starts raining!

Leonard Diggs  (707) 887-1187

Environmental Projects at the Middle School

8th Grade Science Teacher Carrie Barnes has lots of ideas for environmental projects that can be done at the Middle School.
   Landscape design at WMS, several locations around campus.
   Build Garden planter benches to be used in our new garden
   Cupid's Closet - Help girls find dresses to re-use for our annual

                             dressy dance.

Contact Carrie Barnes:   cbarnes@wusd.org

This popular outdoor education program needs nature walk leaders on Wednesday nights. If you do this, you will need to make 5 visits, all on Wednesday night, to fulfill your 30 hour requirement.

Call Emily Wood 874-0229

or Paul Rey 874-0226

Learn how to install solar panels

Attend one training workshop and then install solar panels for low income housing developments on the weekends.

Work in a Native Plant Nursery

The Center for Social and Environmental Stewardship – Windsor (formerly CRP)

Anya Perron Burdock -- 838-6641 ext 244

Work at a small farm that supplies a local restaurant

Jeff Mall, Chef & Proprietor

Zin Restaurant & Wine Bar

344 Center Street

Healdsburg, CA 95448

Raise funds for the GSE trip to Ecuador!

Learn about sustainable landscaping practices

Allen Land Design -- Jeff & Annemarie Allen -- 579-1285

can take 2-3 students for 20 hours.

Alternative transportation, human powered machines

Help build cool machines, organize events, or learn how to rebuild bicycles. LITE Industries (Santa Rosa

Portia 579-5811

Sustainable Agriculture

Green String Institute -- Allie Iacocca -- no phone -- 3571 Old Adobe Rd, Petaluma 94954 -- "can coordinate to have students work with us a day a week"

Volunteer teaching kids about the environment

LandPaths – Bree Benton -- 544.7284

Any Independent Field Science project

Norcal Environmental Student Network -- Marc Epstein -- no phone -- 5150 Fair Oaks Blvd., Ste. 101, PMB 217, Carmichael, CA  95608 --  Can have students complete "variable field work as part of TE-GAP" (the SB70-funded outdoor ed program)

Climate Protection Campaign

Help organize their efforts to curb Sonoma County’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Maitreyi Siruguri  525.1665

eCOmmute coordinator

One or two people who will organize this year’s eCOmmute campaign (incentive driven carpool/bike/walk/bus to school contest in the spring) We have templates for everything as we have done this before! Conduct school-wide survey, find sponsors to give prizes, make the campus aware of the event, hold the event, give out prizes, conduct new survey.  (talk with Mr. Klakovich)

Maitreyi Siruguri  would be your mentor 525-1665

Sustainable Projects at "Bell Isle Gardens"

To help students get involved in making Windsor a more sustainable community, WISE alumni have started a local non-profit called "Bell Isle Gardens" located at Living Color in downtown Windsor.

Contact Kayla Winter (ksummer21@yahoo.com)

Projects available include:

     • building a chicken coop

     • organizing an "Eco Fair"

     • Bee-Keeping

     • building a water tower

     • building a Tea House

     • Food propagation

     • Creating and maintaining a mushroom farm

     • Creating a digital catalog of nursery plants

     • Creating a website for the non-profit

     • Organizing an art show or poetry slam

Santa Rosa Bird Rescue Center

Help the center treat injured birds and return them to the wild

March and April Orientation makes this a great project for current juniors to think about. You can get many of your hours completed before your senior year!

523-2473

Start or maintain a composting or recycling program

at one of our Elementary Schools

Cali and Brooks both need help either starting or growing their recycling / composting programs.

Rick Kaye (So. Co. Compost Club)  abettergarden@gmail.com

Daphne Dunn (Cali teacher) 527-7001 or 292-2780

Clean Tech Competition

If you are interested in an engineering challenge, check out this opportunity. A team of 2-4 students will design a clean energy solution that will be judged by a panel of scientists. Check out the Clean Tech Competition Website

Russian River Clean-up (September 24^th!)

Organize a team of students this year and pick up more trash than Healdsburg. Spend the second day analyzing the trash

Clean-up Website

Some possible welding projects

WISE is interested in the following projects that involve welding:

   An arbor for Kiwi plants to grow on outside of Mr. Ks room

      (planter boxes also need to be build for the plants)

   A redesign for our pedal generators to make them more efficient

Create a video focusing on water conservation

            Work with Town water conservation professional

Town of Windsor Administrative Services Department

Contact:  Paul Piazza  838-5357

(ppiazza@townofwindsor.com)

Organize a “Get close to your food” tour or camp 

Town of Windsor Managers Office

Contact:  David Kelley  838-5306           (dkelley@townofwindsor.com) 

 Windsor Storm Drain Base Map Update -  Assist in updating the base map and add new public works information to the plan. Patrick Givone 838-5347

Windsor Creeks Mapping Project Help to generate a map of the creeks within Town limits to include creek locations, names, and additional reference info. on each creek. Contact public and private companies to compile and categorize information Windsor public Works department.  838-5340

Assist with Windsor's community garden project

Help with plans and construction of the garden

Assist in upkeep and monitoring of use

Brad Sherwood (Windsor Water Board) 570-7448

Four Projects with the Town of Windsor Community Services Department (parks and recreation)

Jon Davis  838-5980   jdavis@townofwindsor.com

1 - Shadow a Parks Supervisor or Facility Supervisor

-       gain overall knowledge of job duties

-       assist staff with specific projects and duties

2 - Assist in the organization of the Bike Valet project for the summer special event series.

3 - Assist in the organization of the Town of Windsor “Earth Day” event.

4 - Become one of two youth members on the Town of Windsor's Parks and Rec Board. This project starts in May and you will be expected to attend monthly meetings. This is a great senior project for you Juniors to think about. Ask Mr. Klakovich for details, or talk to our present Board representative, Ashley Gobert

Project advisers for 2011-2012

Lands
Brianna Allen*
Maribel Avila Gonzalez*
Brandon Bass*
Maddie Church*
Samantha Ford*
Patrick Kiernan*
Karla Rios*
David Clark
Gary Dusek
Lucas Jordan
Josh Williams
Ben Crabb
Dylan Hardaway
Jay Shatnawi

Klakovich
Isabel Rosas*
Tobin Torrez*
Christian Calderon*
Veronica Duran*
Omar Guererro*
Ian Hayes*
Danika Lee*
Yareli Banuelos
Jose Gonzales
Josh Wong
Christian Delagnes
Sal Baldenegro
Kris Strouse

Jolly
Marimar Vasquez*
Vanessa Valdivia*
Ashley Gobert*
Jared Kennedy*
Jeniffer Merida*
Jacob Rash*
Ayla Scott*
Joe El Ahmad
Pedro Jimenez
Hannah Acevedo
Esai Gonzalez
Jason Jimenez
Greg Volkmuth
Ben Mudgett

 Ganzler
Leo Gonzalez*
Bella Montez*
Carlos Palacios-Torres*
Barbara Royers*
Nicole Munns
Cynthia Nunez
Jazmin Ruvalcaba
Andrew Gonzalez
Marcus Lohner
Andrea Shafer
Casey Wallace