ISEEBI - Integrated School Energy Education and Building Improvement

Seems the ENERGY-SE program has been given up as dead before arrival. Congress never funded it and this year the President didn’t even try to put it into DOE’s budget. I have my doubts about the Dept of Education tackling STEM in a meaningful and integrated way… especially with the budget axes in full swing.

More info here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6026/162.2.full.pdf

The author is also involved as a coach or judge with the local BEST Robotics competitions.

http://www.changetheequation.org/

http://www.greenbuildingpro.com/component/jomcomment/trackback/2095/com_content

http://www.iteaconnect.org/Publications/publications.htm

I’ve been a subscriber to Business Week for most of twenty years.  I enjoy their perspectives, they appear to be balanced.  We just received a link request and I took a look.  This is good information for framing all green activities in the reality of business needs.

Take a look for your self:

Green Energy by BusinessWeek

The proposed project has High School (or Jr College) pre-engineering and shop classes building ICS style solar collectors (low tech, minimal moving parts) for low income housing (such as Habitat and Affordable Housing).  Our Lab will provide engineering design on the collectors and their impact on the houses.  These measurement services will provide accurate facts to other groups to build and deploy their own systems.

This is apparantly the 3rd speech given by the President on Energy and STEM. The first was to announce the ENERGYSE program, which Congress rejected. The second included a large, hand picked, audience including the dynamic duo of Myth Busting, an Astronaut, and if I recall, several science teachers.

Here is his speech. Will Congress listen this time?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-educate-innovate-campaign-and-science-teaching-and-mentoring-awar

A deep resource of resources.

http://nsdl.org/