Pedal Power Cinema 2019

How many watts did it take to run a movie night!?

The 2019 Human powered cinema was a roaring success.

Thanks to the City of Yarra, this year’s event was Free of charge and attracted an audience of over 500 people. Our year 8 cohort did a stellar job on the bikes, pedaling the bulk of our 684.11-watt hours of electricity. With Sophie Clemson winning the most powerful peddler prize this year, contributing 5.0wh in her five minute block.

Class 8A were the contributed the most power in their half hour slot and the public generated an additional 560 watt hours on both the ergo and pedal generators to ensure the batteries did not run out. In fact, the batteries carried enough energy to help out the Holden St Neighbourhood House Community cinema night the following night, where we provided carbon neutral pop-corn to the movie going audience!

A huge thanks to our local business support from Officeworks, IKEA and TESLA as well as our community supporters who provided information stalls from 5- 8pm:

Zoos Victoria

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition

Boomerang Bags

Boomerang Alliance

CERES

Xavier College

Livewell Yarra

Yarra City Council

The Yarra Energy Foundation

Youth Voice Network

Yarra Climate Action Now.

This year we partnered with a new sustainability focused company called DIY HIFI who provided an incredible solar powered PA system for the film and our fantastic musicians

Our Major Sponsors provided eco friendly raffle prizes and gifts for Enviro Team students included:

LUSH, The Lost Lands Festival, Ben and Jerry's Ice-cream, With One Bean Coffee, Cocoon Coating and the Enviro Shop.

Finally, A huge thanks to the dedicated team of staff and parents who have supported our students to run such a great community event: Bronwyn Johnson, David Batten, Amanda Lucas, Joann Stackhouse, Sarah Foley, Anne Corry, Trev Howlett and Samone Hosking. Many of whom were at school before 7am and still there after midnight.

Keep an eye out for how you can continue to help us become a carbon neutral school by 2020. All fundraising efforts will go towards achieving this goal and will focus on energy efficiency improvements and additions to our existing solar array. If you would like to support our fundraising program, you can purchase some carbon neutral coffee for home from our long-term supporters www.withonebean.org.au . Select your favorite coffee blend and when you are at the checkout, enter the voucher code “MGCENVIRO”. Each 250g of coffee sold will generate $6 to MGC’s solar panel fund- and for every kilogram of coffee roasted, WithOneBean will plant a tree in Timor Leste!

For more information about the sustainability program at MGC, please contact Andrew Vance: avance@mgc.vic.edu.au