Summit Challenges D.C. Area Students to Design Climate Change Solutions
June 18 2024 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Black Student Fund and Forbright Bank host D.C.
area students and environmental experts in week-long summit to
build business ideas that address local sustainability issues
The Black Student Fund and Forbright Bank will host the
second-annual Sustainable Solutions Summit for D.C.-area high
school students from June 24-28. The weeklong event gives
entrepreneurial high school students the opportunity to collaborate
with leading sustainability experts to develop and present business
plans to help solve local environmental issues. Students with
winning ideas will receive scholarship funding and connections to
help them throughout their career.
“We’re excited to partner with the Black Student Fund to
encourage a new generation of entrepreneurs and leaders to tackle
one the most meaningful challenges of our lifetimes,” said
Forbright Bank Director of Community Impact, Natalie Chapman. “We
look forward to building on the success of last year’s Summit with
more great speakers and students excited to learn.”
The event gives students an opportunity to hear from and network
with leading environmental experts, business leaders, and
academics. Presenter expertise ranges from ocean conservation to
plant-based food production to energy efficient construction. The
event will culminate in students developing and presenting their
own sustainable business ideas to a panel of judges who will award
scholarship funding to the winning team.
What: Sustainable Solutions Summit – a weeklong event
focused on empowering high school students to build business ideas
to address local environmental issues.
When: June 24-28, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. daily
Where: Marriott Courtyard Bethesda 5520 Wisconsin Avenue
Chevy Chase, M.D., 20815 Walking Distance from Friendship Heights
Metro Station
Featured Speakers: Alfred Carr, D.C. Department of Energy
& Environment Daron Coates, Co-Founder, ThinkBox Group John
Delaney, Founder and Chairman, Forbright Bank Seth Goldman,
Co-Founder of Just Ice Tea, PLNT Burger, Honest Tea, Eat the Change
Lina Gomez, National Geographic Society Mark Haver, Sustainable
Ocean Alliance; BlueGreen Generation Larissa Johnson, Montgomery
County Department of Environmental Protection Ashley McEvoy,
National Park Foundation Leroy Nesbit, Black Student Fund Kwabena
Osei-Sarpong, Founder and CEO, RIFE International Liz Perera, U.S
Department of Energy Elijah Perry, Formerly GRID Alternatives
Mid-Atlantic Rebecca Ballard, Rebecca Ballard Advisory; Rooted
Communities
MEDIA RSVP: Media interested in attending are asked to
RSVP to bwakana@forbrightbank.com
Hosts Black Student Fund Forbright Bank
About Forbright Bank Forbright Bank
(www.forbrightbank.com), Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender, is a
bank and lender taking action to decarbonize the economy.
Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Forbright is committed to
accelerating the transition to a sustainable, clean energy economy
by financing the companies, investors, and innovators driving that
change.
About Black Student Fund The Black Student Fund (BSF)
provides essential advocacy, academic and retention support to
academically motivated African American and other underserved
students to facilitate their access, admission and successful
matriculation and graduation from member schools. For more
information, visit www.blackstudentfund.org.
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Ben Wakana, info@forbrightbank.com