Nation's Premier Sustainability Challenge Expands to Encourage K-8 Students to Become Green 'Agents of Change' in Their Communities

Student Team from Iowa to Present Winning Sustainability Project to UN Representatives, Peers and Media

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) are partnering again this year to educate, empower and engage students and teachers nationwide to become "Agents of Change" in improving their communities through the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge. The second year of this national sustainability challenge-now expanded to include elementary school students-encourages students in kindergarten through eighth grade to team up with their classmates to create replicable solutions to environmental issues in their classroom (grades K-2), school (grades 3-5) and community (grades 6-8).

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Year two of the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is kicking off in connection with today's United Nations International Youth Day in New York City. The grand prize winning team from the inaugural year of the challenge, Team Dead Weight from West Branch, Iowa, is presenting their project to an audience of peers, UN representatives and media as part of the day's theme, "Sustainability: Our Challenge. Our Future." Team Dead Weight's winning project focused on the environmental hazards of lead wheel weights in tires.

"The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is a unique sustainability challenge that aims to inspire the next generation stewards of our planet," said Thomas McCausland, Chairman of the Board, Siemens Foundation.