Here's How ComEd's First Earth Month Challenge Netted Out Last Year...
(as of 5/23/2012)

Last year, the Earth Month Challenge was a pilot program among just five elementary schools.  The competition was fierce, but when April was over, a clear winner emerged.  Check out the results below!

School

1. Divine Providence
2. St Cyril & Methodius
3. St Mary
4. Hanson Park
5. St Paul Lutheran

Challenge Pts

80,960
168,160
90,410
82,680
16,570

HH Electric Reduction Pts*

81,750
125,000
68,000
36,250
15,570

Total Pts

162,710
293,160
158,410
118,930
32,320

PSQ

1,627.1
669.3
609.3
457.4
430.9

Rankings based on PSQ Score, which is total points divided by number of officially enrolled students at the school's classroom-, grade- or whole-school participatory level. See contest rules for details.
* HH is an abbreviation for "household."  These are the points that student households earned by reducing their electric usage in April -- 250 points for every 1% reduction versus usage in April 2011.

CONGRATULATIONS!

ComEd would like to thank our participating schools and students for making our first-ever ComEd Earth Month Challenge a smashing success!  And of course, we'd like to congratulate Divine Providence for winning the $5,000 Grand Prize by averaging more than 1,600 points per student!  Wow!
 
We marveled at the level of parent/student enthusiasm and participation across the board.  The photos, video and fridge art drawings that were sent in and posted to our blog page were absolutely fabulous!  And the weekly Challenge Sheets that were turned in showed a true commitment by parents and students to learn about energy efficiency and to adopt energy-saving habits.
 
Thanks again to all the school principals, administrators and teachers for making this Earth Month Challenge pilot program possible!
 
And special thanks to all the students -- this pilot was powered by you!

NOTEWORTHY:
St Cyril & Methodius had the largest number of students participating, and they turned in more than 100,000 points than anyone else!  
 
More impressive than that, one of their students was able to help their parents reduce their electricity usage in April by a whopping 51%!  We've never seen that kind of energy efficiency before!  
 
Overall, St Cyril had 39 student households that  reduced their energy usage in April -- and 19 of them did it by 10% or more!  
  
Divine Providence had 28 households that saved electricity, 14 of them did it by 10% or more.
 
St Mary had 22 households that saved electricity, 9 of them saving 10% or more.
 
Hanson Park had 8 households that saved electricity, 5 of them by 10% or more.
 
St Paul had 8 households that saved electricity, 2 of them by 10% or more.

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