Wheelabrator Livestreams Environmental Symposium

From Wheelabrator Technologies:

HAMPTON – Renewable energy provider Wheelabrator Technologies will provide live online video coverage of its annual youth environmental summit for the first time in the 20-year history of the company’s flagship community engagement program.

Over the past two decades, Wheelabrator’s Symposium for Environment and Education has inspired more than 3,000 middle school students throughout the U.S. to create innovative solutions to environmental issues. This year’s Symposium is slated for May 5-8 in Sunrise, Fla.

In all, 150 students from 15 schools in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Florida will gather to present their projects to a panel of Wheelabrator employees, educators and environmental experts. A first for the Symposium series, each team presentation will be made available online, enabling schools, family members, friends, and community and business leaders to watch the presentations unfold live Tuesday, May 6.

Interested spectators can view the school presentations by logging on to Wheelabrator’s website at www.wheelabratortechnologies.com/livestream/.

The 20th annual Wheelabrator Symposium for Environment and Education will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sunrise - Sawgrass Mills.

This year, the Wheelabrator Symposium is focusing on the theme of “Connecting to the Oceans” through a special educational partnership with third-generation ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau, first grandson of legendary explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The theme is designed to engage students in research, scientific study and community projects, linking the quality of the local environment to the health of the seas around us.

As part of the partnership, students will follow Cousteau and his team during Mission 31, a month-long research mission June 1 to July 2 in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary aboard Aquarius, the only underwater marine habitat and lab in the world. Students will also be able to participate in online science sessions on ocean conservation led by renowned scientists. Cousteau will be the keynote speaker at the Symposium’s 20th anniversary celebration.