John Freemuth Student Congress

2024

The Andrus Center for Public Policy, Public Lands Foundation, and National Association of Forest Service Retirees are partnering to host the 2024 John Freemuth Student Congress October 7 – 10, 2024, in Las Vegas, NV. The 2024 Student Congress will focus on public lands policy issues associated with the transition to renewable energy. Select college and university students from across the country will examine renewable energy development on public land through field work and policy discussions, culminating in a student-authored report that will be presented to the heads of Federal land management agencies, in Washington, DC. Students will explore issues such as: climate change as the catalyst for change, the drive to decarbonize, and public lands trends in energy production and transmission.

8:30 a.m.	Registration and Reception Time
9:30 a.m.	Welcome Remarks
10 a.m.	Introductions
10:45 a.m.	History of the John Freemuth Student Congress
11:30 a.m.	Lunch
12:30 p.m.	Navigating the Global Energy Transition
2:00 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m.	Presentations Continued
4:30 p.m.	Summarize Day and Review Schedule for Tuesday
5 p.m.	Dinner

8:45 a.m.	Meet in the hotel lobby for various field trips
9:45 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	MGM Mega Solar Project in the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone
11:30 a.m.	Harry Allen Substation
12:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Gemini Solar Project
3 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Travel back to hotel
6:30 p.m.	Dinner

11 a.m.	Reassemble and report out
11:30 a.m.	Lunch
12:30 p.m.	Reconvene in work groups
3:00 p.m.	Reassemble and report out
3:30 p.m.	Group Discussion
4:30 p.m.	Dinner

8 a.m.	Finalize work group recommendations
10 a.m.	Students present recommendations
11 a.m.	Feedback on presentations
11:30 a.m.	Lunch/close Out
12:30 p.m.	Adjourn