Next Steps:
Increase geographic footprint – Create a list of contacts that can help organize events in different geographical areas.
Leverage past events to grow – Contact teachers and principals from participating schools and suggest that they share their experience with adjacent schools.
Aspirational goals:
Student involvement in planning events – How can we replicate the success at Richard Montgomery High School which was student led?
Awareness and support:
Local EV Enthusiast community – Reach out to local EV organizations to ask for support to notify their members when EVs are needed for an event.
- MD Volt – Contacted
- Tesla Owners Club of the Mid-Atlantic. Contacted
Regional EV community – Reach out to share the idea
- Richmond – Drive Electric RVA. Contacted
- EV Grand Prix schools. Contacted
- Smithsonian High School Teachers summer program graduates
EV Stakeholders – Share the idea, eventually ask these organizations to put the word out to their members to contact their local schools to suggest a school based EV event.
- Local Sierra clubs
- Local Clean Cities
- EZ-EV (An Exelon program to promote EVs) – Discuss areas where we could work together.
- EVIC / Maryland MDOT / Colleen T. – Contacted
National Organizations
- Plug in America – Share evolving plans. Possibly advertise as part of National Drive Electric Week
- Sierra Club – Share evolving plans. Possibly advertise as part of National Drive Electric Week
- EAA – School Based EV Events added as an Interest Group and a Program added as one of the EAA education committee projects.