The first-ever Connecticut Clean Trades Summit to highlight the energy-saving work of high school students will be Thursday at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.
Connecticut Clean Trades is a pilot program where five students at Connecticut vocational-technical high schools show how teams of students at their institutions researched how their schools used electricity, water, waste, and heating. The student teams then came up with recommendations to improve operations for maximum fiscal and environmental benefit.
The participating schools are technical high schools Norwich, Ella T. Grasso in Groton, E.C. Goodwin in New Britain, Platt in Milford, and Henry Abbott in Danbury.
The program came from the Energize Connecticut initiative, which uses ratepayer dollars to support energy efficiency efforts. The Connecticut Business & Industry Association managed the program.
The event will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at CCSU’s student center.
