Squawk Squad Information

Squawk Squad is empowering the next generation of kiwi kids to become environmental leaders. In 3 years, Squawk Squad has had 45,000 kiwi kids, from 2000 NZ schools, take part in their online, interactive, environmental education programmes. This has come with significant recognition including being announced as NZ’s most Innovative Social Enterprise in 2018. We are now crowdfunding for a scalable product and team, as Squawk Squad has excess teacher demand that we can't currently provide for. We have a total network of 85,000+ kiwi kids but last year were only able to deliver their programme to 15,000 of these (current excess demand of 70,000 kids). This “Think Global, Act Local” platform enables kiwi kids to learn about environmental issues in a highly engaging way, and implement local environmental solutions to live more sustainably. ------------------------------ NB: We started out 3 years ago with an innovative idea to engage NZer's with the protection of our native birdlife - this was a big success but our efforts are now being directed towards education to maximise the impact we can have across Aotearoa. More info on our origin below: ------------- Squawk Squad started out as a social enterprise that connected and engaged New Zealanders in the protection and growth of our native birdlife. As a result, we connect people with sanctuaries by an app that gives them the ability to collectively invest in sensor-connected traps in aid of sanctuary projects. The investors are notified in real-time when the trap activates and this indicates the positive impact that the user is having on native birdlife.