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Windmill Building Fun Part of Book in Common Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: 10-04-2010
Joe Wills
Public Affairs
530-898-4143
This year’s Book in Common is “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba. The book chronicles the creativity and ingenuity of Kamkwamba as a boy in a village in Malawi, one of the poorest nations in Africa. He finds purpose and motivation in a small library in his village and invents a windmill from cast-off parts after reading about wind power.
The competition is sponsored by the CSU, Chico Mentor Student Association, the First-Year Experience Program and the Gateway Science Museum.
Campus and community teams will have five hours to build a windmill from scratch. They will compete in one of four categories: Most Functional, Most Artistic, Most Whimsical and Best Junior Prize.
CSU, Chico President Paul Zingg and Chico Mayor Ann Schwab will be among the judges for the contest. Prizes of $100 will be donated to a cause of the team’s choice.
The winning windmills will be auctioned off during CSU, Chico’s Founders Week 2011, April 9-17, with the proceeds presented to Kamkwamba for philanthropic use while he is on campus for a lecture April 14.
Information and registration form for the competition can be found at http://www.csuchico.edu/fye/bic.
For other Book in Common events, go to http://www.csuchico.edu/bic/calendar.shtml.
CSU, Chico’s First-Year Experience Program (FYE) is designed to help first-year students succeed academically and socially and make a smooth transition to university life. The Mentor Student Association, working in collaboration with FYE, seeks to connect first-year students into Chico campus and community culture through Book in Common-related activities, as well as organizing fundraising projects each year.
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