After a year of planning our long awaited conference in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, the time finally arrived. On October eleventh, the Sea Savers
boarded a plane with a destination of Brazil, excited to present everything we
had so passionately worked on. We practiced on the bus, in the plane and the hotel.
The conference, which took place in Graded School, a very welcoming and
advanced school community, was filled with new ideas and innovations. We
experienced the presence of key-note speakers such as Rob Thorough, Michael
Furdyk, and John Liu various times throughout the week, which inspired
many from all the different schools due to their varied ideas. Around twenty
schools from the Americas went to the GIN conference and participated. Due to
this fact student-lead workshops occurred four at the same time and those who
were not presenting could chose whatever workshop they wished to attend. Cultures
were shared and in a breakfast, lunch and dinner gathering at Graded School, we
all learned plenty about the new friends met at Brazil. When the GIN conference
came to a close, the Sea Savers were recognized due to their enthusiastic
presentations of both the Adopt a Coral
and Lion Fish Hunting workshops. The
new ideas and motivation we carried back from the conference of 2012, will lead
our way through many future projects such as our second annual Lion Fish
Festival in February 2013 as well as more adopt-a- coral advancements. Sea
Savers can’t wait to share with the public our new ideas!
Article by: Giovanna Diez
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