Red Lodge High School vying for $100,000 grant to ‘harvest the wind’ and they’d appreciate your vote.

Red Lodge High School is in the running for a $100,000 grant to erect a wind turbine on school property, reducing the school’s carbon footprint as well as its energy costs: by about $15,000 yearly.

The ONLY school in Montana competing for this grant and likely the SMALLEST school by far, Red Lodge NEEDS VOTES in order to compete against the much bigger schools also vying for the grant.

It doesn’t matter where in the world you live, you can vote once a day through the month of October here: https://www.farmers.com/thank-americas-…/vote-for-a-teacher/ The school’s "Green Team" dreamt this up with help from the club’s advisor, the wonderful teacher Kate Thornton Belinda.

No matter where you live, a vote for Red Lodge is a vote for sustainability. Please consider sharing the voting link, and this story, written yesterday by our friend Ed Kemmick, and help our little school make a big change for the better.

Thanks so much!

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Kate Belinda needs your vote, but she’s not running for office.

She is competing against 15 other teachers around the country for a chance to win a $100,000 grant through the Dream Big Teachers Challenge, sponsored by Farmers Insurance.

If Belinda is chosen, the 15 students on Red Lodge High School’s Green Team, which she advises, will use the money to erect a wind turbine on school property, shrinking the school’s carbon footprint and saving the school an estimated $15,000 a year in energy costs.

"I am kind of the face of it, but it’s not about me," Belinda said. "It’s really the Green Team that’s doing it."

Farmers Insurance received several hundred applications in this year’s competition and selected 15 finalists. Six of those finalists will receive $100,000 grants based on online voting that will take place during October.

By: Ed Kemmick

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