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  • The High School Innovation Challenge, Warnock Foundation.

    The High School Innovation Challenge, Warnock Foundation.

    The next time you are at a stadium filled with cheering fans,  imagine if our  teams ran onto the field  not to knock down their opponents, but to lift up their community.   What if they came to tackle social problems, not quarterbacks?   Would we cheer and wave in unison if our team helped our…

  • Interviews with Protestors of Energy Answers Incinerator

    Interviews with Destiny Watford, graduate of Benjamin Frankin High School, Charles Graham, student at Benjamin Franklin High School and Mike Ewall, Director of Energy Justice Network at the protest march against the planned Energy Answers Incinerator on a site one mile from the High School. Students said that the plant would add pollution to their…

  • Energy Answers Questioned. Why Students Are Fighting a Planned Incinerator Near their School.

    Benjamin Franklin High School teacher, Kelly Klinefelter Lee thanks students for their critical thinking skills and citizenship as they continue to study and object to the proposed Energy Answers Incinerator. The proposed incinerator would be built on property a mile from the school and would burn waste including car tires and car parts from Maryland…

  • Protest March Against Energy Answers Incinerator

    Students at Benjamin Franklin High School lead protest of the Energy Answers Incinerator planned for construction at a site a mile from the school. Students fear that the incinerator will bring waste including car parts and car tires from other other states and will add lead, mercury and fine particulate pollution to their neighborhood that…