BWMS get energy curriculum boost from OEP By LENNY C. LEPOLA
News Assistant Managing Editor Thanks to the Ohio Energy Project
Big Walnut Middle School students are learning to become wise
consumers of energy while at the same time helping their
families save money by reducing energy waste at home today.
Since the Ohio Energy Project began in 1984 it has been
providing complete, objective and comprehensive information on
sources and forms of energy, energy efficiency and conservation,
and the economic and environmental impact of energy use. AEP
Ohio has partnered with the Ohio Energy Project to offer the
e3smart℠ Program since 2007, and local energy provider Columbia
Gas came on board in 2012. Middle school science teacher Keri
Kotchounian said the ball got rolling when she attended an
e3smart℠ Program workshop in Worthington, where the Ohio Energy
Project is based. “I liked it so much, and felt that it works in
so well with our academic content standards that I mentioned it
to our other science teacher Rich S