Malden Represents Tiny House at the Greenbuild International Convention

Automotive teacher Chris Bazzinotti is one of the people who advise the building of the Tiny House. He and others he worked with went to the 2017 Greenbuild International Conference at the Boston Convention Center. Bazzinotti, along with several Malden High School students, represented Malden High School and the Clean Energy Tiny House Project.

The convention went on for a week with a lot of contractors who have built houses and buildings. Bazzinotti said that “[he and the students] presented [their] Tiny House project from last year that they built using green energy to put power into it.” Bazzinotti said that presenting their work at the convention “was a great experience and brought together Science teachers, STEM teachers, English teachers, directors, principals, and students to one event which was amazing.” He said that “there were some important people speaking at the event and former president Bill Clinton was there.”

Bazzinotti adds that the convention “had workshops for people learning about solar energy, learning about geothermal energy, learning about tidal energy, and learning about nuclear energy.” He had also said that the convention offered “classes to people to teach them about different kinds of energies.” Professionals had come in to teach the workshops and the classes had started at different times so people could attend them to learn about different kinds of energy.

Bazzinotti says that “when the opportunity arrives, [he] would attend the event again.” He said that “it does not mean there will be another Greenbuild around here and that we were very lucky that [the convention] was here in Boston.”, as the event is held in different cities across the nation each year.

At the convention, Bazzinotti and about ten students had explained how the Tiny House worked and what they learned on the construction process, to people who had walked by. Bazzinotti says that “it was really amazing to see the students step up”.

On the convention itself, Bazzinotti believes that “Greenbuild was one of the coolest events that [he had] been to with students and that [the students] have done some amazing things down in the tech lab.” He believes that “[The Tiny House] was a special project because [they] got funding from the state and [they] could hire students and pay them to work on the project.

The 2018 Greenbuild International Convention will be in Chicago next year.