Teach a Six-Hour Workshop - PEP BB community.straw.teachsix

I teach workshops and summer camps about wild animals, ecology, and respecting nature to children. I believe that what I teach is well aligned with permaculture values, but I am not explicitly teaching permaculture techniques. Would these summer camps and workshops count for this BB?

I would think those topics could be considered to align with permaculture values.  It might depend on the particulars but I'm guessing you'd be ok.

I taught a rocket mass heater workshop at my friend's property. Before the workshop began I had all of the brick and metal in place but not fastened so that the participants could peek inside. I detailed the pre-work processes I did including sourcing the material, prepping the barrels, leveling the bricks, tools used for cutting and grinding, strategy for the design, making and placing cob, etc.

The workshop was primarily comprised of making cob. We made a perlite-clay insulative mix for surrounding the firebrick. We made a lot of straw-sand-clay cob for the bench. We made clay slip and schmear for adhering the perlite-clay and regular cob to the brick/metal and for layering the cob.

Then I did a test fire. This was the most important aspect of the workshop to me because I wanted to walk through the troubleshooting steps for the juice-box configuration. I was targeting an exhaust temp of 150deg so I anticipated raising or lowering the exhaust pipe to demonstrate customizing the efficiency of the system. It was so cool to hear all of the wows from the radiant heat at the barrel and then when I took everyone outside to look at the exhaust, everyone was very impressed that the exhaust was transparent. My first RMH workshop went very well!

Minimum Requirements for this BB:
 - Teach a six hour workshop
 - The subject of the presentation has to be related to permaculture or homesteading
 - Hold the attention of the students for the full six hours
 - 5 students = 2 points, 1 point for every additional student, maximum of 10 points
 - Can be combined with “set up a six hour workshop” to get two BBs

To document this Badge Bit, provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (<2 mins):
- show the workshop (with countable attendees) as it is beginning (including a clock or phone with the time)
- show the workshop (with countable attendees) as it is ending (including a clock or phone with the time)
- you teaching the workshop with at least one identifiable attendee
- some students doing a workshop activity