DWP Begins Green Power Student Contest -- Community Projects for High Schools Emphasized.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1999--

Last Year 350 Entries from 425 Students at 60 Schools Were Received

Posters Were Highlighted in DWP-Sponsored Ads and Exhibits

Teachers and administrators throughout the city of Los Angeles are now receiving general information in the mail from the Department of Water and Power on the 1999-2000 Green Power for a Green LA Student Contest.

This year high school students will be urged to develop community projects on green power but may also submit multimedia entries that include logo designs, videos, songs and web sites.

Elementary and middle school students in grades K-8 will continue to develop posters. The contest is open to all public schools in LAUSD and private/parochial schools in the city of Los Angeles.

"LA's wonderful young students instinctively understand our need for a better environmental future which new clean renewable sources in our green power program will help bring to Los Angeles. I am looking forward to the many colorful and creative entries but am especially interested in seeing how the high school students will bring the message about green power into their homes and communities through their projects," said David Freeman, DWP general manager.

To provide detailed information to prepare teachers for helping their students, DWP is sponsoring four workshops. Interested teachers may attend any one of the sessions.

The Green Power Student Contest workshops will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.:

-- Monday, Oct. 25, DWP Headquarters, downtown, 111 N. Hope St.

-- Wednesday, Oct. 27, Mulholland Middle School Multipurpose 

Room, 17120 Vanowen St., Van Nuys

-- Monday, Nov. 1, LAUSD LA-SI Westside Math/Science Technology

Center, 1630 Walgrove Ave, Los Angeles, Calif. 90066

-- Wednesday, Nov. 10, LAUSD LA-SI San Pedro Math, Science

Technology Center, 2201 Barrywood Ave., San Pedro

During the workshops, teachers will receive hands-on lesson materials on green power and graphic design textbooks. Specific contest rules and information will be distributed.

Winning posters in last year's contest were included in a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times and a song was used as a background in a series of radio commercials. Posters were also incorporated into a DWP green power exhibit at Dodger Stadium. Poster and pocket calendars for the year 2000 will be printed showcasing the winning entries from the first contest. The calendars will be distributed to schools and at community events throughout the city.

The contest is one of many activities in the Green Power for a Green LA program that seeks to increase the amount of new clean renewable energy provided for the city to improve the environment.

Renewable energy includes natural resources such as electricity produced from the sun, wind, geothermal and biomass resources. The general program provides all classes of DWP customers the opportunity to sign-up for the new clean energy.

The contest is one of the many DWP educational partnership programs which includes the Cool Schools Tree Planting Program, Youth Service Academy for at risk students, DWP Science Bowl, adopt-a-school and environmental lessons on air quality, water quality and water resources.

Further information about the contest can be received by calling either 310/836-3515 or 310/836-0873. Also, information about the contest and the Green Power for a Green LA Program can be received by clicking on the web site at www.GREENLA.com.