Home Show and GoodWe Australia, announce the return of innovative "EcoSmart Kids" educational program

GoodWe, a world-leading manufacturer of Solar products, and one of the top solar brands in Australia, has announced the return of its education initiative, "EcoSmart Kids", delivering a series of roadshow events across Victoria to inform and inspire children about climate change, renewable energy and positive environmental messages. Partnering again with the Home Show and Energy Matters, this year the program includes collaboration with the Great Barrier Reef Legacy team, to deliver awareness about the importance of protecting one of the largest and most complex natural systems on Earth.

Melissa Clendinen, General Manager, Exhibition & Events Australia (Event Organiser for Home Shows Australia) commented:

"The Home Show once again is excited to be part of the EcoSmart Kids program through their relationship with GoodWe Australia. The Home Shows have been operating for over 45 years and with EEA's annual show attendance of over 235,000 visitors annually, we see this as a great opportunity to create awareness amongst a younger audience. Working with GoodWe to deliver messaging about how renewable energy plays an integral part in helping the environment." 

Following the success of the first EcoSmart Kids program in 2023, GoodWe will execute its 2024 program with over double the scale and scope, visiting schools from Gippsland to Bendigo. The program comprises a series of interactive animated workshops, written and created by GoodWe Australia, approved by education professionals and aimed at primary school children from grades two to six. Program content identifies what climate change is, ways of helping the environment and how solar and other renewable energy sources work. The GoodWe Australia team will visit many schools across Victoria to deliver the program inside the GoodWe smart innovation vehicle - a custom-made roadshow truck.

A new additional workshop has been added to the program, providing insight into the work of the Great Barrier Reef Legacy team and their Forever Reef project, which aims to collect and preserve over 415 species of hard coral and ultimately aid in re-population efforts. The Forever Reef program bio-bank facility was launched last year, as a world-first "coral ark" powered by a donated solar installation, complete with a GoodWe energy storage system.

Following the school visits, all participating children will be able to take part in a State-wide competition, to create something that promotes a positive environmental message, leaving the medium completely open to their own talents and passions, from art, to creative writing, to music and more. A judging panel consisting of representatives from GoodWe, Energy Matters, the Home Show and Great Barrier Reef Legacy will judge entries, with trophies and finalist prizes to be presented in front of attending schools, media and VIP guests at the Melbourne Home Show in August. 

For more information about the "EcoSmart Kids" educational program, please visit www.homeshows.com.au/melbourne/goodwe/ 

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Notes to editors: 

About GoodWe:
GoodWe is a world-leading PV inverter and energy storage systems manufacturer listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 688390). The company has more than 5000 employees located in 15 different countries and a team of over 1000 engineers working at its R&D centres to continuously optimize and advance energy storage technology. GoodWe storage inverters were ranked in the top 3 globally by Wood Mackenzie in 2022, the company was ranked 2nd in the top Australian inverter suppliers by Sunwiz and the most financially stable inverter company by BloombergNEF. Having achieved over seven consecutive TÜV Rheinland "All Quality Matters'' awards and consistently being ranked at the top in terms of overall product quality, GoodWe's comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions for residential, commercial, and utility-scale PV systems is guaranteed to deliver high performance and reliable quality across the board. For more information, please visit www.goodwe.com.au

About Home Show:
Running for more than 45 years, the Home Show has been a beacon in the Australian home improvement sector, providing a curated space for ground-breaking innovations, expert-led seminars, and a wide range of home-related products and services.

About Great Barrier Reef Legacy
 Great Barrier Reef Legacy is a not-for-profit organisation created to address the urgent need to secure the long-term survival of the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide. Built on over 35 years of expedition, tourism and research experience, we deliver groundbreaking projects, innovative science, education and public engagement to accelerate actions vital to the preservation of coral reef. Through public, private and corporate funding, Great Barrier Reef Legacy brings together the best scientific minds, talented educators and inspired multimedia specialists to create positive and lasting outcomes for our environment.

About Forever Reef
The Forever Reef Project aims to preserve the genetic biodiversity of hard coral species and catalogue, collect and store living fragments, tissue and genetic samples in a living 'coral ark' - a state-of-the-art facility located within the Cairns Aquarium, to maintain the living biodiversity of corals. The Forever Reef Project will be capable of hosting 12,000 live coral fragments to preserve coral biodiversity, through the collection of living coral specimens and creating a repository of live fragments, tissues samples and genetic material to aid in reef research and restoration efforts worldwide. With 415 species of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, the Forever Reef Project is aiming to collect all species by 2026, and currently houses nearly 50% of the species within the Cairns Aquarium facility. However, the ultimate goal for the Project is to collect all 800-1000 species of coral found in the world in order to properly understand and preserve all species, and complete the most precious collection on Earth.

About Dr Dean Miller
 Dr. Dean Miller is a scientist, multi-media professional, BBC television presenter and an Australian Geographic sponsored explorer. With a Ph.D. in coral reef management, tourism and resource allocation and a wealth of scientific experience in the field from Antarctica to the Arctic and everywhere in between, Dean's scientific research career has been rich and diverse. Having been involved in over 300 ocean expeditions on ships all over the globe, much of Dean's life has been at sea in some of the most challenging environments known. Dean was sent to the remote sub-Antarctic research station on Macquarie Island with the Australian Antarctic Division for 12 months to study fur seals, has led expeditions in the Antarctic on five occasions, worked with Polar Bears in the northern Russian Arctic for two months, explored northeastern Greenland for three, and has spent the last 20 years working on the Great Barrier Reef tagging and researching everything from dwarf minke whales, tiger sharks and turtles.