Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus will host its seventh annual Environmental and Sustainability Expo on Friday, May 6.
An all-day event geared toward students from all three Coachella Valley school districts, the expo kicks-off at 8:45 a.m. in the campus’s Indian Wells Theater with keynote speakers Haley Clawson, KESQ chief meteorologist, and Vincent Battaglia, CEO and president, Renova Energy Corp.
Following the keynote speakers, representatives from local green industries, including Southern California Gas Company, Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District, SMaRT Education, State of California Food and Agriculture, CV Link and Green for Life will be on-hand to encourage students to learn more about working in green science fields.
Students also will be able to participate in interactive presentations by The Living Desert, Desert Hot Springs REAL Academy and Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG).
Tours of the campus’s Palm Desert Health Sciences Building, which is Gold LEED certified, will take place during the presentation period.
Students from the Palm Springs Unified School District will also screen their top environment-related digital films (DigiComs).
The Environmental and Sustainability Expo is an annual event. This year’s sponsors include Renova Energy Corp., Coachella Valley Water District, Southern California Gas Company and Riverside County Supervisor John J. Benoit.
The CSUSB Palm Desert Campus is located at 37-500 Cook St.
For more information about the expo, contact Regina Garrison at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, at (760) 341-2883, ext. 78144 or rgarriso@csusb.edu.
Located in beautiful Palm Desert, the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus offers bachelor and master’s degrees, a doctorate degree in educational leadership, and teacher credentials and certificates. With more than 1,200 students, it is the only four-year public university in the Coachella Valley and plays a vital role in educating and training the region’s growing population.
For more information about the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, contact Mike Singer in the campus’s Office of Public Affairs at msinger@csusb.edu or (760) 341-2883, ext. 78107 or visit the campus website at www.pdc.csusb.edu.