Episode 2: Florida & The Oil Spill
Key Points: Causes, consequences, dispersants, animal rescue, beach clean-up, technologies with experiments; Green travel - sailboat renovation, ship sewage treatment, bio-diesel, solar, wind, hydro-electric generating propulsion system, reverse osmosis fresh water system, sail training, casting off
Specialists/Guests: Dr. Wallace Nichols (Ocean Revolution), Dr. David Guggenheim
Locations & Events: Turtle, Sea birds, Manatee, Dolphin, etc. rescue and clean-up,
Application & Participation: Effects of oil addiction & Off shore drilling, “Green Boat” systems and how they work. Co-eds will get their OPEN WATER SCUBA Certificates in Florida
Extra Credit Quiz: Sink or Swim Quiz. Each student stands in her own small dingy. Every question they get wrong means a 5 gallon bucket gets dumped on them from a bridge above. Falling overboard or sinking is elimination. “How do the systems on the boat work? How does a solar panel create electricity? Name all the different types of sails on the boat. How does reverse osmosis work? What is tacking? etc...” 8 GPA points possible: first to sink or swim gets 1 point, last left floating gets 8 points.
Episode 3: Cuba
Key Points: History of Cuban relations to U.S., conflict of governments & not of people, different approach with different results, social issues (low tech, is less more, medical care), healthy coral reefs, entertainment (salsa & jazz)
Specialists/Guests: Dr. David Guggenheim, Dr. Jeff Salz
Locations & Events: Horseback riding tobacco & sugarcane fields, Learn Afro-Cuban dance in Santiago de Cuba, rock climbing in Viñales: cubaclimbing.com, “The Shark Whisperer”
Application & Participation: Co-eds will participate in coral reef research projects through University of Havana with Dr. Guggenheim. Co-eds learn the basics of rock climbing, knots, technique from Dr. Salz and after climbing on route at Viñales will donate gear afterwards to “Cuban Climbers” Organization
Extra Credit Quiz: “Cuban Scavenger” Timed race Co-eds will begin at the top of rock face where they will rappel down to get a mask and snorkel. Then ride a donkey to a tobacco plantation where they have to roll 5 cigars to get a set of fins, then have to dance Mambo Cubana with a Cuban dancer for a 1 minute set (each mis-step will add an extra 15 seconds) to get an underwater camera. Then take a 1950s taxi to the coast where they will get a list of 5 specific species of coral and fish that they must photograph. Once to the shore with all 5 photographs, their time will stop.
Episode 4: Turks & Caicos
Key Points: Dive training, humpback migration, global warming monitoring center, acidification, palm frond weaving, diver certification, shark diving
Specialist/Guests: Tanya Streeter (9 time world champion free diver & only woman on national stamp in Turks & Caicos other than the Virgin Mary): contacted, met with and she is interested in a dive with humpback whales.
Locations & Events: Caicos Conch World, MacDonald’s Arch (coral arch)
Application & Participation: Co-eds will get their advanced SCUBA license
Extra Credit Quiz: Underwater Basket Weaving: Students will be taken to a dive location. They will be informed that a palm frond is under a numbered rock 60’ below them. They are to dive down to their number and weave a small basket underwater and must be strong enough to hold at least 1 cup of sand. Students will return to the surface with all safety stops before they run out of air. Once to the surface, the student must have enough air in her tank to be able to blow a conch loud enough for a judge on the beach (with a flag) to hear and signal back. Students will be judged on safety, completion of tasks, and time. Lowest score gets 1 and highest gets 8 GPA points.
Episodes 5 & 6: Haiti
Key Points: Poverty, corruption, destruction of natural resources, earthquake, rubble to reefs, Vetiver hillside retention, biochar carbon capture (world stove), composting, Innovida (SIP building of “Sustainable Haiti Center”, solar and wind to charge Bio-rock reefs & fisheries “Plant-A-Fish,” Organize “Habitats of Hope” R&B benefit & awareness concert
Possible specialists/Guests: Fabien Cousteau, Black Eyed Peas, Wyclef Jean - Fugees -- have been contacted and express interest
Locations & Events: Co-eds will have to organize different aspects of the “Sustainable Haiti Project” then organize a benefit and awareness concert
Application & Participation: Building a “Sustainable Haiti Center” in Cayes-de-Jacmel how Bio-rock reefs work (welding and wiring), why vetiver for hillside terracing, Innovida SIP construction (cost effective, lightweight, long term)
Tests: Successful participation in each different aspect of the Haiti Project will be scored on an 8 point scale. Design an artistic Biorock structure with a group of locals and build it. Plant 500 stalks of vetiver on a hillside. Build a working pellet stove (world stove). Team building (Sustainable Center X 2 buildings).
Episode 7: Jamaica
Key Points: Drug (poverty and drug trade) should we legalize marijuana to stop corruption? , deforestation mining for bauxite, river rafting & erosion, organic coffee, underwater pirate town ruins
Possible specialists/Guests: Usain Bolt (world record holder in 100 & 200 meters) -- Not contacted: www.nvamgt.com Nichola Chen Phone: +44 (0) 844 335 3980
Locations & Events: Rhodes Hall Plantation Horseback ride, Nine Mile (Bob Marley Mausoleum), Rocklands Bird Sanctuary, Appelton Estate Rum Tour, Rainforest Bobsled at Mystic Mountain, Mayfield Falls, Negril Lighthouse, Blue Mountain Coffee Estate, Caliche Rainforest Whitewater River Rafting, Port Royal Underwater Pirate Ruins
Application & Participation: deforestation relates to recycling, drug trade and politics, music & gang truces,
Extra Credit Quiz: Recycling Relay Race - Sprint to recycle: (on a soccer field, a scale will have to be lifted with weight from cans collected on the opposite side of the field, when enough weight is gathered to lift the scale, it will uncover a treasure map), to be handed off to a bicyclist who will ride to the “Underwater Pirate Archeology Site” where a team freediver will have to find submerged and hidden ping pong balls, balls can be handed off team’s beer-pong bouncer who will bounce balls into coconut shells where each successful hit reveals another letter to a “wheel-of-fortune” type Jamaican puzzle (e.g.: “Buffalo Soldier”). First team to solve puzzle will score 8 GPA points, 2nd place team will score 4.
Episode 8: Cayman Islands
Key Points: Profit vs. Preservation (Stingray City with a cocktail bar), Eco-tourism gone bad, “low to no” impact interactions with nature
Specialists/Guests: Kristen Boese (9 time world champion kite-surfer & Playboy model) contacted and interested -- Kristen is also a personal friend of Sir Richard Branson & will be surfing with him in August 2010.
Locations & Events: Green X-Treme Sports (kite surfing), Blow Holes, Devil’s Grotto, Pirate Caves, Cayman Islands Bat House Project -- bat relocation activity, Trinity underwater Caves, Stingray City
Application & Participation: The pursuit of money is not the pursuit of life: proposing and promoting a different solution for Stringray City Bar, bat guano vs. inorganic fertilizer at “Cayman Bat Rescue Foundation.”
Extra Credit Quiz: “Holy Guano Batman Obstacle Course” Co-eds will have to be given a net to catch and correctly identify 4 different species (of the 17 types) of bats that will be loose in a barn. Once completed, they will be given a bucket that will be used to transport guano from a pile to a pulley system where enough weight will free a suspended kite board. Once the kite board is obtained, co-eds will run to the beach where they will have to windsurf through a slalom course to a floating dock. Here, they will have to then dive through an underwater obstacle course on sea scooters and through a finish line. Fastest time earns 8 GPA points, slowest receives 1 point.
Episode 9: Cancun - the Yucatan of Mexico
Key Points: Greening up Spring Break, architecture of doomed civilizations, Mayan Calendar 2012, mysterious worlds (underwater caves “Cenotes”), canopy exploration zipline, horseback
Specialists & Guests: TBA
Locations & Events: Cenote’ cave diving, canopy tour, Mayan ruins & archeology dig in cenotes, The Little Mexican Cooking School, Rio Secreto/ Reserva Natural (caves), Uxmal & light show, understanding the Mayan calendar
Application & Participation: When cultures overuse their resources - they die, Mayan astronomy & astrology
Extra Credit Quiz: Pyramid Power: At (or near) Uxmal, Co-eds will be divided into 2 teams to go through the following obstacle course & relay race: Identify the year, month, and day by rotating three different Mayan calendars. Once solved, a traditional ball will be released to next team member who will try to score a hoop at “pok-a-tok” against a fully costumed Mayan (for each failed miss, they must take the ball back to a starting line). Once a hoop has been made, the next team member will be granted a Mayan totem that they must zip line to a runner who will run the totem to place atop the Mayan pyramid. The fastest team wins 8 GPA points each, 2nd place can win up to 4 points for completion.
Note: This episode will end with each Co-ed pleading with the audience to vote for them via text to boost their GPA for next week’s evaluation on the season finale.
Episode 1: Ketch My Drift -- The Plot and the Players
Key Points: Explain the show with teasers, meet the judges, review the application process, see the craziest applications, applicant selection, applicants get their letter of acceptance and arrive at gulf spill.
Students work toward a GPA (Green Philanthropic Adventurer) award. At the end of the semester (Episode 10), the 4 professors will reveal their grade book assessments. Each of the Professor’s scores will account for 20% of the student GPA, the final 20% will come from audience via text voting at the end of episode 8. Co-eds will also have many opportunities to raise their GPA through with “Extra Credit Quizzes.”
Episode 10: GPA Award, Season in Review
Key Points: On location at the pyramid in Uxmal. As grades are given, students will summit the pyramid steps. Co-eds will reflect (with flashback footage) on their semester performance to try to justify their GPA (Green Philanthropic Adventurer) scores to the Professor/judges. Scores will be given by each of the three Professors to each of the Co-eds. Text voting from the previous week will be tallied, then extra credit will be added. Students will be eliminated by the lowest score first till the one with the highest is announced and awarded the $100,000 scholarship.
