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    2024-2025 HEROES for Zero
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    The Eco-Sustainability Office presents the 2024–2025 HEROES for Zero Contest!  HEROES for Zero challenges K-12 student teams to help make their schools “Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Ready” by reducing energy consumption, maximizing energy efficiency, and educating fellow students and staff.  Teachers are encouraged to connect ZNE activities with the STEAM curriculum.  Teams can earn badges in six HEROES categories and win up to $25,000 for sustainability-related projects at their schools!
     
    Zero Net Energy (ZNE) schools are ultra-efficient and consume only as much energy as they produce.  In addition to lowering energy usage and operating costs, ZNE schools can improve student health and productivity.  ZNE schools can also serve as teaching tools, providing opportunities to learn about sustainability, high-performance design, and emerging technologies like renewable energy generation and storage.
     
    The steps to ZNE are:
    1. Reduce Demand for Energy
    2. Maximize Energy Efficiency  
    3. Utilize Renewable Energy
     
     

  • Would you be interested in joining the HEROES for Zero Contest?

     

    Register HERE for the 2024-2025 Contest!  

  • LAUSD Heroes for Zero 2023/24 Winning Teams!

     

     

    Top three teams ($25,000 for a sustainability project at their schools):
    • Sunland Gifted Magnet Elementary School
    • Foshay Learning Center's Engineering Academy
    • Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies Technology Prep Academy
     
    Five additional winning teams ($5,000 for a sustainability project at their schools):
    • Haynes Charter for Enriched Studies Elementary
    • Maywood Elementary
    • Menlo Ave. School Span STEAM Magnet Elementary
    • Valley Oaks Center for Enriched Studies (VOCES) MS & Hs
    • Ernest Lawrence Middle School

     

    Top Winning Entries

     
    Sunland Magnet Elementary
     

    Foshay Learning Center – Engineering Academy
    CCLA Technology Prep Academy 

     

     

     

    Finalists

    Haynes Charter for Enriched Studies 
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    Maywood Elementary School
     
    Menlo Avenue School Span STEAM Magnet Elementary
     
    Ernest Lawrence Middle School
     
    Valley Oaks Center for Enriched Studies MS& HS
    Watch all of this year's winning videos HERE
     

     

     

    Elementary School Team - Sunland Magnet's Planet Protectors

     

     

    Middle School Team - Foshay Learning Center – Engineering Academy

     

    High School Team - Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies (CCLA) Technology Prep Academy 

  • “We are very proud of our young heroes who engaged in creating pathways for “Zero Net Energy” schools through energy-efficiency activities with their creative presentations.  Congratulations to all the teams that participated in the 2023-24 HEROES for Zero Contest!"                  - Christos Chrysiliou, Chief Eco-Sustainability Officer

     

    Special thanks to our ZNE Partner, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power