Clean Air Challenge in the news!

Clean Air Challenge - 2007 Workshops In India
July 2007
The CAC was well received in Delhi, India this past summer. Through the help of sponsor Agilent Technologies, the CAC piloted the program to 25 teachers from miple to high school. We will be posting more information about the trip soon!
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Clean Air Challenge - 2007 Workshops In China
July 2007
CAC has truly become an international curriculum thanks to Agilent Technologies. For the third year in a row CAC has been presented in China. This year the remarkable thing was that Terry Angelus (Delaware CAC trainer extraordinaire) trained 6 Chinese teacher trainers so that the program can continue to grow in China.
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Clean Air Challenge 2006 - 2007 Workshops
May 2007
18 Clean Air Challenge day-long workshops were held this spring, 7 in Northern California, 3 in Central California, 6 in the Los Angeles Basin, 1 in Colorado Springs, and 1 in Wilmington, Delaware. Response to the new and improved CAC materials has been extremely positive, and teachers are excited about the hydrogen fuel cell car kit that now accompanies the program.
Clean Air Challenge 2006 - 2007 Workshops
February 2007
The new 2007-2008 Edition of the Clean Air Challenge is here! The new edition includes 6 brand-new lab activities, and a completely revised Teacher’s Companion book with step-by-step instructions, answer keys, and over a dozen optional open-ended team projects for your students. The Case Study student reader has also been revised and now includes cutting-edge information about alternative fuels including hydrogen, biodiesel and diesel, as well as a feature article on climate change.
Agilent Sponsors Second Clean Air Challenge In China
August 2006
Teacher Lee Boyes and Susan Sherman returned to China, where they presented the Clean Air Challenge to Chinese teachers, students, and representatives in Beijing.

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The Environment/ Clean Air in the news!

While links between public health and air pollution levels have been suspected for some time, two recent studies provide proof of a disturbing relationship:

A USC Medical School Study (September 9, 2004) - Published in the New England Journal of Medicine
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Concludes that children, raised in high-pollution communities, from age 10 to age 18 suffer a 15% to 20% irreversible decrease in lung development and function. The article prompted headlines and lead stories in newspapers throughout much of the nation.
Study Finds Smog Raises Death Rate (November 17, 2004) - by Maria Cone in the Los Angeles Times
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Finds smog (specifically from ozone) raises the number of deaths significantly from heart and respiratory ailments.