  {"id":16,"date":"2020-08-19T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:15:12","slug":"about-gecco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/about-gecco\/","title":{"rendered":"About GECCo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn About GECCo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Girls\u2019 Energy Conservation Corps (GECCo) is an energy conservation program for Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by AV巴士 in collaboration with the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.girlscoutseasternmass.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.360kid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">360KID<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When girls participate in GECCo\u00a0activities, they earn patches through fun activities as they explore how they use and waste energy, how their energy use directly connects them to climate change, and how to change their energy-use behaviors. GECCo girls become empowered to act as agents of change by communicating with others about climate change and energy conservation. They build skills with new media, impact their community positively, and increase their individual and collective sense of power to make a real difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AV巴士<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AV巴士&nbsp;is a&nbsp;nonprofit&nbsp;made up of teams of math and science education and research experts dedicated to innovation and creative problem solving.&nbsp;At the frontier of theory and practice, AV巴士\u2019s work encompasses research, content and curriculum development, technology innovation, professional development, and program evaluation.&nbsp;AV巴士 has a passion for&nbsp;social justice&nbsp;and strives to create level playing fields for all learners, reaching more than three million students every year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terc.edu\/\">www.terc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn About GECCo<\/p>\n<p>The Girls\u2019 Energy Conservation Corps (GECCo) is an energy conservation program for Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by AV巴士 in collaboration with the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.girlscoutseasternmass.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.360kid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">360KID<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When girls participate in GECCo\u00a0activities, they earn patches through fun activities as they explore how they use and waste energy, how their energy use directly connects them to climate change,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/about-gecco\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/gecco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}