Here we are -- just 3 days to go!

This Friday, November 12th, is the closing day for submitting your GPR project reports. So now is the time to give it everything you’ve got to finalize ongoing efforts or even organize a few more if you can manage. And once you’ve done so, please submit your reports to the GPR website with as much complete information about your project as possible.

To offer a little added inspiration, the GPR coordinators in China and India have put together brief videos cheering you on for this final week’s work.

Watch the videos and report your projects...

(Message from China, in Mandarin, here: http://www.greatpowerrace.org/zh-hans/santianjiyu).

What will happen after the 12th? Our coordinating team will need a few days to review all the projects you submit, and once we have completed a final tally, we will announce the 5 teams from each country who earned the most points in the Race. We will then work with those 15 teams to compile final reports from all their work in the Race. A panel of judges will review those reports and select our global winners, who will be announced during the United Nations climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico in early December.

Here are just a few of the latest examples of projects you all are implementing:

The University of South Carolina, a campus with loads of sustainable initiatives prior to GPR, held an energy forum and sustainability week to carry momentum forward and get students thinking big for competing (and cooperating) on an international scale. They held a “No Cosmetics Day” at the St. Francis Degree College For Women in Hyderabad, India as a step towards more sustainable life-styles among students and teachers. And at Shenyang Agricultural University in China they donned their own GPR jerseys and cycled through campus to raise awareness for sustainable transportation and clean energy.

That’s all just a small sample of the great work you are all up to. Keep it up, and send in your final project reports by Friday. Thanks!