New, GK-12: Growing the Green Collar Workforce for the 21st Century

题目：新GK-12：培养21世纪的绿领劳动力机构：爱荷华州立大学该项目将支持研究生研究员，他们将作为人机界面，积极地与中学教师和学生交流作为当今科学基础的兴奋和创新。美国技术娴熟，现代社会。该计划的基本原理是需要为这个国家的教育工作者和年轻学生在stem主题教学法中打下坚实的基础。从长远来看，这种以研究为基础的教育和培训是面对新出现的社会挑战的先决条件，以产生能够维持可持续生活水平的技术，这种生活水平最终将依赖于可再生能源和工业材料。该项目建立在爱荷华州立大学已建立的跨学科学术基础设施的基础上，旨在解决利用可再生能源（太阳能）和利用大气二氧化碳作为最终碳源产生碳基能源和化学品的关键技术差距。这一跨学科研究整合了基于STEM研究的核心主题，包括植物科学、农业工程、生物催化、生化途径发现和代谢工程、生物信息学、生物材料、化学催化和数学等领域。该项目的更广泛影响包括增加中学科学教师的专业发展机会；扩大STEM学科的K12学生的教育和就业机会，特别是那些来自代表性不足的少数民族和经济弱势群体的学生；训练有素、具有全球竞争力的劳动力给美国经济带来的好处；招募女性和少数族裔研究生参加相关学术课程。

TITLE: New GK-12: Growing the green collar workforce for the 21st centuryINSTITUTION: Iowa State UniversityThis project will support graduate student fellows who will act as the human interface to motivationally communicate to middle school teachers and students the excitement and innovations that are the scientific underpinnings of today?s technologically savvy, modern society. The rationale for this program is the need to solidly ground this country's educators and young students in STEM-theme pedagogy. In the long-term such research-based education and training is a prerequisite for facing the emerging societal challenge to generate technologies that will maintain a sustainable standard of living, which ultimately will be dependent on renewable sources of energy and industrial materials. This program builds on Iowa State University's established scholarly infrastructures that are designed to be interdisciplinary and address key technology gaps for harnessing renewable energy sources (solar energy) and generate carbon-based energy and chemicals using atmospheric CO2 as the ultimate carbon-source. This interdisciplinary research integrates core themes that are grounded in STEM research, which include the fields of plant sciences, agro-engineering, biocatalysis, biochemical pathway discovery and metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, biomaterials, chemical catalysis, and mathematics. Broader impacts of the project include increased professional development opportunities for middle school science teachers; expanded educational and career opportunities for K12 students in STEM disciplines, especially those from underrepresented minorities and economically disadvantaged; benefits to US economy resulting from well-trained, globally competitive workforce; and recruitment of female and underrepresented minority graduate students to associated academic programs.