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

国际和平研究所名称：波莱特·克兰西机构名称：康奈尔大学提案标题：GK-12草根：通过合作研究生/教师/中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GK-12来自工程和物理科学的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)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实现高性能和保持环境友好的能量创造和储存的新材料。该项目将把这些领域的研究生安排在6-12年级的教室里，并将利用其在创造计算工具方面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。与他们的研究相结合，研究员们将开展一项新的教育计划，以发展与不同社区高度有效的沟通技能，并为促进科学提供终身的社会效益。研究员们将与初中生和高中生分享他们对能源研究的热情，特别是那些在靠近康奈尔的奥农达加民族学校的学生。应长老们的要求，一个早期项目涉及研究员、教员和学校学生设计和建造一个太阳能(热)温室，作为一个符合地球管理文化的动手项目。许多项目具有很强的可视化和计算性，适合许多社区使用，包括听力困难的学生，使他们的创造力得到充分发挥。研究人员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，在那里他们将参加一家糖厂的实践经验，在那里，能源生产的需求必须与食品需求相平衡。

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.