New, GK-12 Grass Roots: Advancing Education in Renewable Energy and Cleaner Fuels through Collaborative Graduate Fellow/Teacher/Grade-School Student Interactions

新的 GK-12 草根：通过研究生/教师/小学学生的协作互动推进可再生能源和清洁燃料的教育

• 批准号: 1045513
• 负责人: Paulette Clancy
• 金额: $ 144万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1045513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; GK; 12; Grass; Roots

PI Name: Paulette Clancy Institution Name: Cornell University Proposal Title: GK-12 Grass Roots: Advancing Education in Renewable Energy and Cleaner Fuels through Collaborative Graduate Fellow/Teacher/Grade-School Student Interactions Proposal ID: 1045513Cornell GK-12 Fellows from engineering and the physical sciences are researching new ways to create renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal and biomass) and other creative ways to reduce our carbon footprint. The core and strength of this GK-12 project lies in the development of new materials for energy creation and storage that achieve high performance and remain environmentally benign. The project will place graduate students in these fields into classrooms in grades 6-12 and will leverage strengths in creating computational tools to design new energy materials, predict their properties, and work synergistically with experiments, to accelerate commercialization. Coupled with their research, Fellows will undertake a new educational program for developing communication skills that will be highly effective with diverse communities and provide a life-long societal benefit for the promotion of science. The Fellows will share their passion for energy research with students in middle and high school, especially those in Onondaga Nation schools close to Cornell. An early project, requested by the Elders, involves Fellows, faculty, and school students designing and building a solar (thermal) greenhouse as a hands-on project that fits a culture of earth stewardship. Many of the projects are strongly visual and computationally based, making them suitable for use by many communities, including students with hearing challenges, allowing their creativity to be fully realized. Fellows will enrich their research skills in energy projects, especially biofuels, through visits to a partner university in India, where they will take part in hands-on experience at a sugar mill where need for energy production must be balanced against that for food.

PI姓名：机构名称：康奈尔大学提案标题：GK-12草根：通过合作研究生研究员/教师/小学学生互动提案ID：1045513 Cornell GK-12来自工程和物理科学的研究员正在研究新的方法来创建可再生能源（风能，太阳能，地热和生物质）和其他创造性的方法来减少我们的碳足迹。 GK-12项目的核心和优势在于开发用于能源创造和储存的新材料，这些材料具有高性能并保持环境友好。该项目将把这些领域的研究生放在6-12年级的教室里，并将利用创造计算工具的优势来设计新的能源材料，预测它们的特性，并与实验协同工作，以加速商业化。与他们的研究相结合，研究员将开展一项新的教育计划，以发展沟通技能，这将对不同的社区非常有效，并为促进科学提供终身的社会福利。研究员将与初中和高中的学生分享他们对能源研究的热情，特别是那些靠近康奈尔大学的奥农达加国家学校的学生。一个早期的项目，长老会的要求，涉及研究员，教师和学校的学生设计和建造一个太阳能（热）温室作为一个动手的项目，适合地球管理的文化。 许多项目都是基于视觉和计算的，适合许多社区使用，包括听力有困难的学生，让他们的创造力得到充分发挥。 研究员将通过访问印度的一所合作大学，丰富他们在能源项目，特别是生物燃料方面的研究技能，在那里他们将参加糖厂的实践经验，在那里能源生产的需求必须与粮食相平衡。