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

项目名称：Paulette Clancy机构名称：康奈尔大学提案标题：GK-12基层：通过合作研究生/教师/小学生互动推进可再生能源和清洁燃料教育提案ID: 1045513康奈尔大学GK-12工程和物理科学研究员正在研究创造可再生能源（风能，太阳能，地热和生物质能）的新方法和其他创造性的方法来减少我们的碳足迹。这个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，这些材料既能实现高性能，又能保持环保。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能源材料，预测其性能，并与实验协同工作，以加速商业化。在进行研究工作的同时，获奖者将承担一项新的教育计划，以培养与不同社区高效沟通的技能，并为促进科学发展提供终身的社会效益。这些研究员将与初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。一个早期的计画是应长老们的要求，由研究员、教员和学校学生设计并建造一个太阳能（热）温室，作为一个符合地球管理文化的实践计画。许多项目都是基于视觉和计算的，这使得它们适合许多社区使用，包括有听力障碍的学生，让他们的创造力得到充分实现。奖学金获得者将通过访问印度的一所合作大学来丰富他们在能源项目，特别是生物燃料方面的研究技能。他们将在那里的一家糖厂亲身体验，在那里，能源生产的需求必须与粮食生产的需求相平衡。

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.