Message from the President and CEO, Jamaica Public Service Company

Limited

Emanuel
DaRosa

Since 2012, the JPS Foundation has been taking its place as a catalyst for the development of Jamaica’s
young people. We have been heartened to see their growth – both academically and personally – and
even more excited since the inception of our first Energy Clubs in 2014.

As the JPS Foundation members look forward to meaningful engagements with club members, I
encourage you to make the most of this opportunity. You are in one of the greatest seasons of your
life. You are absorbing impressive quantities of information, gaining skills to prepare you for adulthood,
and forming close friendships, some for a lifetime. Your involvement in the JPS Energy Club, will not
only be a great place to interact with your peers who have similar interests. It will also be a
great place of preparation for your career, inspiration for the future, and understanding the power and
management of energy.

This platform for the creative exchange of information, is our open invitation to you, to share
your innovative ideas about energy, benefit from the energy mentor assigned to your club, and develop
your leadership capabilities. We are aware, that as we interact with you, we may actually be meeting
with future engineers and other professionals who may one day serve alongside us as part of our JPS
family. On behalf of the JPS Energy Clubs, I welcome you to this exciting organization. The future awaits!
Programme Overview

The JPS Foundation Energy Club was conceptualised in 2014 as an offspring of the JPS
Foundation’s Summer Energy Camp held in July of the same year. The project began with fifteen (15)
schools across the island in an effort to increase awareness of energy issues and better build the
participants’ capacities to be responsible and informed energy users and possibly future workers in the
sector.

In 2017, the programme was revised and remained as a fifteen school project, however, some of the
schools discontinued the programme and new schools joined. The revised programme will help students
better understand issues in energy and inspire innovation and creativity in the fields of energy, science
and technology. There will be additional focus on environmental awareness and management through
innovative, technological and science based methods.

The JPS Foundation Energy Club Programme will help to:

EDUCATE: The Energy Clubs will EDUCATE students on theoretical and practical knowledge of
energy-related matters

CONNECT: The Energy Clubs will facilitate CONNECTIONS between club members and their
peers, communities, energy experts and national energy network (careers in energy).

INSPIRE: The Energy Clubs will INSPIRE behavioural change in energy consumption,
perspectives toward JPS and the energy sector while encouraging creativity and innovation in energy
solutions

DEVELOP: In addition to grooming student into being energy conscious and good environmental
Stewards, the Clubs will also facilitate the DEVELOPMENT of leadership capacities in students

Objectives

1. To create a generation of informed energy users armed with critical knowledge about
local, regional and international energy issues
2. To foster improved energy consumption perceptions and habits in students
3. To facilitate an energy network between students and academic/professional leaders in
the energy sector
4. To enable students’ exposure to scholastic, developmental and career opportunities in energy
5. To influence positive changes in the participating schools’ energy consumption trend
and practices
6. To raise the profile of the participating schools as change-makers in energy
 Resources

Mentors - Mentor(s) will be introduced to you at the beginning of the term and contact
details exchanged

Club Shirts - These will be provided in based on continuous participation and attendance

Prizes - These will be provided by the mentors each term for spot prizes and incentives

Report template - These will be shared electronically and should be completed and submitted
electronically and in print with the principal’s signature and school stamp.

Club Kit

Banner – to be used during club meetings and special events. Please store safely to
avoid damage
Badges – to be issued to regular club members and retrieved upon leaving the club or
the school and issued to new members
Register – to be completed at each meeting

Posters - allows the school to insert the meeting room, contact person and day and time
of meetings
Club Manual - guides the club in its entirety

Reporting

End of Term Reports

Register - This is to be transferred to the electronic version at the end of each term and
submitted along with a scanned version of the hard copy

Summary Report - Template will be shared electronically and should be completed and submitted
electronically as well as in print with the principal’s signature and school stamp

Project Report - These will be requested on a case by case basis

Annual Report - Template will be shared electronically and should be completed and submitted
electronically as well as in print with the principal’s signature and school stamp
Recommended Activities

Plant Tours - To be arranged through mentors at least two months in advance

Games - Feel free to create your own based on the curriculum

Lectures - Invite speakers for specific topics. Request JPS speakers through mentors at least 2
weeks in advance

Group Activities - Feel free to create your own based on the curriculum

Discussions – Engage in active discussions in line with the curriculum and current affairs

Cross-clubbing - Shared meetings and activities with other Energy Clubs – This can be
arranged through the mentors with at least one month’s advance notice

Competitions - JPS Foundation will facilitate one competition each term. Details will
be communicated in a timely manner.

Outreach Activities- JPSF Energy Club will be integrated with the JPS Foundation
outreach activities such as International Coastal Clean-Up day and Read Across
Jamaica Day.

List of JPS Foundation Energy Clubs

1. Clan Carthy High School

2. Cornwall College
3. Dinthill Technical High School
4. Ferncourt Hig School
5. Herbert Morrison High School
6. Holy Childhood High School
7. Immaculate Conception High School
8. Innswood High School
9. Merl Grove High School
10. Muschett High School
11. St. Catherine High School
12. St. Elizabeth Technical High School
13. St. Jago High School
14. Tarrant High School
15. William Knibb High School