On March 1^st, 2010, The Climate Project Canada launched a National speaking tour aimed at educating students and teachers on the science and solutions to climate change. The "Green your School Challenge" tour will reach 40 000 individuals in over 100 high schools across Canada.

The launch was held at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the heart of downtown Toronto.  Built in 1797, Jarvis Collegiate Institute is the second oldest education centre in Ontario.  The launch included presentations by Play it Cool athlete Hedia Balkhi and keynote presenter Corrina Serda. 

Hedia is a member of the Canadian National Dragon Boat team and won gold for Canada as world champions in August 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. For the past 10 years Hedia has paddled on water ways, lakes and oceans around the world, and joined David Suzuki's Play It Cool program to work with other athletes in order to make the world a better place.

Corrina Serda is the youngest person in the world that Al Gore has trained to give his slideshow "An Inconvenient Truth". She received the training in April of 2008 at age 11, after giving the solutions portion of her mother Victoria's presentation over 100 times to more than 25,000 people around Ontario.

The Green Your School Challenge tour launch was presented in front of 500 enthusiastic grade 9 and 10 students. This presentation has set the tone to what will undoubtedly be a very successful and educational campaign.

For more information about the Green Your School Challenge, click here