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The Westerly Innovations Network |
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The Westerly Innovations Network, or WIN team is a student community service team from Westerly, Rhode Island. Most of us are in the Westerly Public School System. The team was initialized on September 3rd, 2002 as a community problem solving team and entered Future Problem Solving (FPSP) / Community Problem Solving (CmPS) Competition. We won 2nd place for Project M.O.W.E.R. at the International Conference at the University of Connecticut in 2003. Project S.C.A.T. went to the CMPS competition again in 2004. In 2005, Project WIN-05 won the 1st place at the CMPS competition at the University of Kentucky, the 3rd place at the Volvo Adventure in Gothenburg, Sweden, and gold prize at the Christopher Columbus Awards in Orlando, Florida. Team members Alex and Jeff attended the 2005 Children's World Summit for the Environment in Aichi, Japan. Alex was the junior board member representing North America at the conference. Our project for 2006 was entered into the E-Cybermission competition and the Christopher Columbus Awards. The Robo-Nurse was a gadget designed to help patients with complicated medication schedule (such as AIDS or HIV patients, or even seniors with multi-chronic diseases) to get higher adherence to their medications, as non-adherence could potentially be fatal. Another feature of our gizmo will be able to broadcast a distress signal and contact family members in case of emergency. We won two Criteria awards for the E-Cybermission and received $2,000 in US savings bonds per student. In 2007 we visited Mexico during April vacation to help set up a media center and give presentations to students at the Yaocalli school in Mexico City. We also established a Mexican WIN team to extend our impact to Central and South America. We have won in the SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Award. One of our teammate also won the 2007 Brower Youth Awards. Please click the BYA link to watch video of our documentary. We are currently working on our 2008 project “WIN 08’ SP2— A Green Bridge Across The Digital Divide”. We are working together with non-government organizations in Africa to help set up computer / media centers in needy countries in order to bring its students and schools into the modern age. Health education materials will be part of the settings. So far we have established global WIN teams in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria and Mexico. We recently shipped a computer center to La Manzanilla, Mexico to be used by students. The computers are currently going through customs. We recently received the first place award in the 2008 CMPS International Competition in the Senior Division Environmental Category. We also received the prestigious Beyonder Award, which is awarded to one CMPS team each year for going above and beyond in their efforts. One team member, Alex Lin, attended the 2008 TUNZA International Children’s Conference for the Environment in Stavanger, Norway and made a presentation about our E-Waste project. Our educational project video was on the UNEP website at www.unep.org under inspiration. Recently, we have worked to establish a 10 computer media center at The Compass School in Kingston, RI, as well as a media center for the Mama na Dada Centre in Kenya. The Junior WIN Team Project TGIF—Turning Grease into Fuel is now underway. Check their page to find out more! |
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P.O. Box 2116, Westerly, RI 02891 |
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Last Update: July 30, 2009 |
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*ALL DONATIONS WILL BE USED IN THE PURCHASE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OUR REFURBISHED COMPUTERS* |
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WESTERLY INNOVATIONS NETWORK IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH 501(C)(3) non-profit STATUS. ALL DONATIONS are 100 % TAX DEDUCTIBLE. OUR UNITED WAY AGENCY NUMBER IN CONNECTICUT IS 2368, OR YOU CAN SEND donations DIRECTLY TO us at P.O. BOX 2116, WESTERLY, RI. |
