Saint Paul, Minnesota – After the success of the children's book Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy CareersAuthors Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman are teaming up with Enel North Americaleader in clean energy, and windchildinternational leader in clean energy education, to create Everyday Superheroes: An Energy Coloring and Activity Book.
Inspired by the stories and careers of the real-life energetic superheroes featured in Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy CareersThe new coloring and activity book includes:
- Hands-on fun: Build a weather vane, solve tangrams, and create cut-out bookmarks.
- Inspiring work: Color real-life energy superheroes and learn about their energy careers.
- Educational doodles: Discover the wonders of electricity, wind energy, solar, energy storage and more through interactive doodles.
- Exploratory learning: See how energy lights up cities, builds homes, and powers devices.
“We look forward to helping get the new Energy Superheroes activity and coloring book into the hands of students interested in renewable energy,” said Michael Arquin, founder of KidWind. “This will be another great resource for students to learn more about the various energy careers available, from becoming an environmental scientist to working on a large renewable energy farm.”
The book's activities can be used effectively in classrooms, at career fairs, and during KidWind Challenges, the ultimate clean energy learning experience, to help bring energy to life.
Enel, one of the largest renewable energy operators in North America, sponsored this project to inspire students toward a future in STEM fields, including fast-growing careers in renewable energy. Enel also created its own limited edition coloring and activity book, Energetic superheroes: an activity and coloring book from Enel. This book is inspired by the stories and careers of seven Enel North America employees: real-life energy superheroes. Enel will donate copies of this coloring and activity book to Enel partner school districts throughout North America. This project builds on Enel's goal to ensure quality education, share energy opportunities with students and enable local schools to introduce and continue STEM activities as part of their educational curriculum.
The new coloring and activity book. Everyday Superheroes: An Energy Coloring and Activity Book will be released in October 2024 with the Wise Ink editor. For more information and to pre-order, visit www.stemsuperheroes.com/.
About Everyday Superheroes:
Everyday Superheroes is an award-winning nonfiction book series for elementary students written by Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman. It focuses on sharing the stories, careers, and superpowers of women working in STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) with an emphasis on multicultural representation of women in STEM. Each book features an A to Z format with colorful full-page illustrations of each superhero and their unique STEM career. For more information, visit www.stemsuperheroes.com/.
About the KidWind project:
The KidWind Project, an international leader in clean energy education, has been collaborating with educators and students to integrate renewable energy into classrooms for more than 15 years. Since 2004, KidWind has held more than eight hundred training events for more than 50,000 teachers around the world. For more information about our training, challenges and curricular materials, visit www.kidwind.org.
About Enel North America:
Enel North Americapart of the Enel Groupis a clean energy leader in North America and is working to electrify the economy and build a net-zero carbon future by decarbonizing the energy supply, electrifying transportation, creating resilient networks, and promoting a just and equitable transition. Enel North America serves more than 4,500 businesses, utilities and cities through renewable energy generation, demand response, distributed energy resources, smart electric mobility solutions and services, energy trading and more. Its installed portfolio includes more than 10.3 GW of utility-scale renewable capacity, 1.3 GW of utility-scale energy storage and 106.9 MW of distributed energy storage capacity, 4.9 GW of demand response capacity and 193,000 electric vehicle charging ports. Visit enelnorthamerica.com and follow us on facebook.com/enelnorthamerica” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>facebook, LinkedIn, twitter.com/Enel_NA” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>x (twitter)and YouTube to learn more.
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