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Local Business Leader Joins VIP Panel at Wheelabrator Student Symposium
A panel of environmentalists, educators and business leaders including Paul S. Timpanelli, President and CEO of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, will evaluate middle school students’ projects at the 20th annual Wheelabrator Symposium for Environment and Education, which kicks off today in Sunrise, Florida.
As the leader of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, Paul Timpanelli oversees strategic planning, leadership development and economic initiatives throughout the region. Timpanelli draws upon a distinguished career in public service in addition to previously serving as a teacher in the Trumbull Catholic Schools and as vice president of a real estate appraisal company. This is Timpanelli’s second year serving on the VIP panel.
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Timpanelli joins a distinguished group that includes ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau, Bryant Kent Wallace, Director of Physics Laboratories and a physics faculty member at Fisk University, and Dr. Merilyn Johnson, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) supervisor and curriculum science specialist for Broward County Public Schools.
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First grandson of legendary explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau will deliver the keynote address to students at the Symposium. Active in marine conservation efforts, Cousteau launched the nonprofit Plant A Fish™, which empowers children and communities to help restore local water ecosystems.
The Wheelabrator Symposium is an innovative educational program that has inspired thousands of middle school students to become environmental leaders in their communities. This year’s theme is “Connecting to the Ocean.” Approximately 150 students from 15 schools in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Florida regions travelled to Florida this week for the Symposium, including a team from the Park City Magnet School in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Students will present their projects to the VIP panel on Tuesday, May 6. The event will be live streamed via Wheelabrator’s website at www.wheelabratortechnologies.com/livestream/. Park City Magnet School’s presentation on protecting Long Island Sound and cleaning up Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport starts at 9:10 AM.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. is a leader in the safe and environmentally sound conversion of municipal solid waste and other renewable waste fuels into clean energy. To learn more, visit www.wheelabratortechnologies.com. Tweet @WM_WTI.
