Prometheus Redux

Prometheus Redux, formerly called Project Prometheus and often referred to as just Prometheus, is the first semester junior project.

An Essential Spark
Students will research two alternative energy sources and create a spreadsheet comparing the two alternative energy sources and the local energy source.

Note: Students will also be creating and sending a letter to an organization of their choice in the "Essential Spark" project.

Reasoning and Debates
Students will do further research to find possible reasons for why alternative renewable energy sources are not widely used in the United States. Their finding will be summarized in an abstract. After this, students will have three formal debates to convince the audience that their energy source is better.

Energy Conservation
Students will conduct an experiment to formulate methods and/or ideas that would conserve energy. After the experiment, they will write a complete lab report.

Prometheus' Den
Component was skipped for the 2018 project. Similar to the television show Shark Tank, students will pitch their product/concept/idea developed with the Essential Spark and Energy Conservation components seeking investments.

GreenFest
During GreenFest, students that will not be active during ReFashioNation will run an informative booth with the intent of convincing visitors to conserve resources and energy. The audio member of the A/V team for each house will put together a playlist of music to play during the presentations.

ReFashioNation
The culminating event of Prometheus is ReFashioNation. Held in Ursa Major on Cal Poly Pomona's campus, students will run a fashion show. During the show, they will engage with the audience using a multimedia slideshow focused on energy conservation and sources. Students will strengthen their presentations with video documentaries and a runway event displaying up-cycled clothing and cosmetics.

History
The history of Prometheus Redux is unknown, though it is possible that the project is a sort of reboot of an old project, called Project Prometheus. This hypothesis is strengthened by an old project outline packet on the handouts page of the IPoly English 12 Blog, which has a link to a Google Doc named "Prometheus 2014-15".

Taking a deeper look into the current project's name also gives a little insight. The second word, "Redux", means "brought back", or "revived", hinting at an older project that this current one may have been based from.