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The Broward Youth Climate Summit is open to all traditional public Broward County Public School students in grades 5-12. 

What: Seventh Annual Broward Youth Climate Summit
When: February 7, 2025 (9AM-1PM)
Where: Pompano Beach High School

Transportation and lunch provided for attendees

Application: Grades 5-12 BCPS Teachers, apply by October 21, 2025 - email browardstem@browardschools.com for the application link if you didn't receive one.

Participant Requirements: 1) Know the difference between weather and climate (via the Canvas course), 2) Per class, attendees will research a climate related issue that's important to their school or community and create an infographic based on their findings to bring to the summit. They can become climate superheroes by researching possible solutions to their issues from what they learn from the summit or on their own, and 3) the ultimate goal is to create and share a media campaign about their issues and possible solutions. Details from the Canvas course.

2023-24 Posters - Students are to "Forecast the Future" of green technology by researching an existing green technology, then developing a new green tech or improving the existing green tech to solve environmental challenges of the future, and bringing a poster of their findings to the summit. 

2022-23 Poster or Banner - February 10, 2023 - Theme: I Am the Change: Connect, Commit, Act!  Students are to create a poster or recycled banner that shows how they can connect, commit, and act to be the voice of climate change and bring their poster or banner to the summit.

Resources:

• Broward County's Climate, Energy & Sustainability Program

• Broward County’s Climate Change Website

• Broward County's Climate Action Plan

• 2020 Climate Action Plan Questionnaire. Theme: Sea Level Rise
• Volunteering at a Water Way Clean-Up:
  
  • https://waterwaycleanup.org/
• Global Citizens on the Environment - Impact of climate change on the world’s poorest people. This organization encourages people to become global citizens and take action.
  • 23 Million Pounds of Plastic Removed From Beaches in Unprecedented Cleanup
  • 10 worst single-use plastics and eco-friendly alternatives
    
    
• Climate Gentrification - Presentation by Maya Gowda & Emily Vo
  
  
• Top 10 Eco-friendly Substitutes for Plastic
  
  
• Fridays for Future - is a global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. 
  

• Rising Waters Project Based Lessons (PBL)

  • https://www.risingwaters.org/#/broward-county-1/ 

  • https://www.broward.org/climate/Pages/default.aspx

• Article: What do Florida public school students learn about climate change? 

2025 Seventh Broward Youth Climate Summit

Please support this year's summit by downloading this form.

2024 Sixth Broward Youth Climate Summit

Thank you to all of our generous sponsors of this year's summit: The CLEO Institute, Guy Harvey Foundation, NWF, Young at Art Museum, Museum of Discovery and Science.

2023 Fifth Broward Youth Climate Summit

Thank you to all of our generous sponsors that made the Fifth Annual Broward Youth Climate Summit a  success!

2022 Broward Youth Climate Summit Sponsors

    

2021 Broward Youth Climate Summit

Thank you to the following sponsors for your support of this year's summit!

                      

2020 Second Annual Broward Youth Climate Summit

Second Annual Broward Youth Climate Summit Sponsors:  Thank you to all our sponsors for their generous support!

     

Thank you to all of our 2018-19 generous sponsors for making this event a successful one.

            

Third Annual Broward Youth Climate Summit (2020-21) - The Broward Youth Climate Task Force was created to provide Broward County Public School students a voice for promoting environmental sustainability and contributing to the updated 2020-25 Broward County Climate Action Plan. This group researched their issues, met with Commissioner Beam Furr, and sent out tweets to further explore ways of informing the public and solving plastic pollution and climate gentrification.

The main issues the task force targeted were:

1. Plastic Pollution/Recycling - Plastic pollution is harmful to the animals and the environment.  Most plastic straws are not biodegradable and cannot be broken down naturally by bacteria and other decomposers into non-toxic materials. Most plastic straws simply break into ever-smaller particles, releasing chemicals into the soil, air, and water that are harmful to animals, plants, people, and the environment. How can we encourage businesses and the general population to reduce or eliminate the use of single-use plastic such as plastic straws? We should also address the recycling (or lack of) of plastics in Broward County.  
   
   
2. Climate Gentrification - a relatively new term describing what happens when neighborhoods traditionally overlooked by wealthy people become more attractive—and expensive—given their siting in geographic areas that happen to be more resilient to climate-related threats such as stronger, more frequent hurricanes and rising sea levels. How is this affecting Broward County?

Resources on the above issues: constantly updated

• Broward County's Climate, Energy & Sustainability Program
  
  
• Volunteering at a Water Way Clean-Up:
  
  • https://waterwaycleanup.org/ 
• Global Citizens on the Environment - Impact of climate change on the world’s poorest people. This organization encourages people to become global citizens and take action.
  • 23 Million Pounds of Plastic Removed From Beaches in Unprecedented Cleanup
  • 10 worst single-use plastics and eco-friendly alternatives

• Climate Gentrification - Presentation by Maya Gowda & Emily Vo
  
  
• Fridays for Future - is a global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. 
  
  
• Top 10 Eco-friendly Substitutes for Plastic

Members:

Alvin V. - Junior, Miramar High School
"I joined this initiative to bring awareness to the many environmental disruptions that exist in our community".

Emily V. - Senior, Coral Springs High School 
"I joined the Youth Climate Task Force because I am passionate about climate justice and advocating for equitable solutions!" 

 

Krisztina T. - Beachside Montessori 
"I have always been passionate about nature and our part in taking care of Earth. Being involved in the Youth Climate Summit is a very exciting experience, and I hope that we can bring awareness and change to some of the most pressing climate issues."

Khushi D. - Deerfield Beach HS
"I want my voice as a youth to be heard to make a positive and long lasting impact on the world"

Shrishon K. - Sophomore, Miramar High School
“I love science and care for the environment, striving to fix the diverse climate problems one bottle at a time!”

Zoe B. - Senior, Stoneman Douglas High School
"I joined the youth climate change task force because I am passionate about doing my part to fix the environment before the damage is irreversible. I am so excited to be a part of this group and do my part while I’m still in high school."

Broward County Public Schools, through its Applied Learning Department, is partnering with Rising Waters to showcase unique art installations at 18 schools throughout the District and the District office. Rising Waters is a conceptual art project that raises awareness about the impact of climate change to local communities by highlighting future possible flood levels resulting from sea-level rise and storm conditions. The colorful installation artwork provides a visual representation of the potential future by highlighting water at ankle, knee, hip, or eye level.

In addition to installing the sea-level rise artwork, students are also placing hand-made fish flags on campus with their action step for helping mitigate the impact of climate change.

See the entire project at https://www.browardschools.com/Page/66023. 

2022 4th Annual Youth Climate Summit Artwork Winners

2021 3rd Annual Youth Climate Summit Artwork winner

Rem Crespo, Cypress Bay High School

2021 2nd Annual Youth Climate Summit Artwork winner

Amanda Moran, Cypress Bay High School

MISSION 

To convene, engage, connect, and empower young people for action on climate change in South Florida through the Youth Climate Summit and other leadership opportunities, and to create a climate literate generation who:  

• Understands the essential principles of climate science
• Communicates about climate and climate change in a meaningful way
• Makes informed and responsible decisions with regard to actions that may affect climate
• Takes action on promoting and implementing climate change adaptation and resilience measures in their homes, schools, and communities
  
  

2023-24 Broward Youth Climate Summit Committee:

BCPS Applied Learning Department

Broward County Natural Resources Division