On Tuesday October 14th students at Penn State University were delighted to wait in a long line to see someone that many remembered from their younger days: Bill Nye the Science Guy. The event was held late in the evening, with Nye himself speaking at around 8:30 pm, but those suspenders and “crazy” inventions had students lining up around 6 pm. The Power Vote team took this as an opportunity to engage people around clean energy solutions and ask them to sign the pledge!
As the students filed into building, we passed out questions for students to ask Bill Nye generated from the Power Vote platform. We, of course, continued to collect more pledges…270 to be exact! But everyone was growing restless for the familiar face and enthusiasm of Bill Nye.
And he did not let us down. The science guy was energetic, at times quite funny, but most important he was motivating. After discussing CO2 emissions and how the world is warming faster than ever expected, he told the students “This is climate change. You are now members of the climate generation.”
