Skype Conference With Hotchkiss

It is a fantastic idea to use video chatting as a tool when trying to collaborate with others.  It allows for easy communication, and you can see physical reactions to certain topics.  Our group was going to have a conference call with Hotchkiss (a boarding school in Connecticut), and a school in Australia.  Sadly, Australia is on break from school, but we still managed to connect with the students from Hotchkiss.  We shared our ideas pertaining to the water crisis, and they gave us many good ideas.  At their school, the teenagers we video-chatted with are educating others about clean water, and the overuse of plastic water bottles.  They are introducing the idea of bringing dedicated water bottles, and using them exclusively for drinking.  The students are also attempting to decrease consumption of water, and are promoting short showers to conserve water.  After educating Hotchkiss, the students are going to spread their message and cause to the nearby communities.
The students we videochatted with are doing this water project on their own time.  They are firmly dedicated to their ideals, and believe water is an important subject, and their ideas should be widespread.  The club gave us the idea of going to a super market, and asking them to decrease their water use, and limit the sale of bottled water.  We are also going to promote the idea of a dedicated water bottle that can be refilled with tap water.  We told the water club of the mission of Charity Water, and gave them the website URL.  Hopefully they will initiate charity water, and can join the list of schools Charity Water has signed up for their cause.  We told the Hotchkiss students of the movie “Flow”, and told them we would be contacting Irena Salina.  We told them about the movie, and they seemed interested in it.  I think sharing our ideas with each other helps establish a connection between our schools, and will directly help and contribute to our project we are working on.  They seem to be a dedicated group of kids, and both our efforts can make a difference.