2012 was a particular successful year for the educational initiatives making use of the feature length documentary of Silent Snow. This year, we continue.

In Romania, Manifesto Film Club and ORICUM Association organized educational screenings of Silent Snow for high school students by in 27 high schools in 18 cities.

As of the 2nd semester of the 2011-2012 study year Silent Snow became official education material at Szent István University, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary.

Apart from eleven secondary schools, we have presented Silent Snow at five universities and the National Electricity Institute (ICE). The visits to the University of Costa Rica (UCR) (15 March), Earth (9 May) and CATIE (10 May) have been documented in the first school visits blog.

The experience of taking Silent Snow around a country like Costa Rica, which apart from its beauty and diversity has many environmental problems, has taught us so much.  One of the most important lessons is that information and knowledge are of so much value!  By showing this documentary, and sharing these lessons and experiences with these students we are able to (hopefully) inspire them to change their future.

Silent Snow Active in Costa Rican High Schools- Program financed by the Dutch Embassy in Costa Rica. An update by Amanda Merkx and Guillermo Jiron.