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Workshop Detail: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
(6-12): Energy Education
presented by
Juline Ferris, Energy Education Program Administrator, SECO, Sidney Bolfing, Senior Instructor, Texas State Technical College-Waco
Curriculum Developed by State Energy Conservation Office (SECO)
Topics include: kinetic and potential energy, energy transformations, renewable vs. nonrenewable energy, photoelectric effects, and how human activity has modified air quality.
A.M.
Energy Chains and Rube Goldberg
How energy can change from one state or form to another
Windmill Competition
Who can build the best windmill? Could you harvest the wind at your home? You will determine the feasibility of installing a residential wind turbine.
P.M.
Texas Renewable Energy Education Consortium (TREEC)
Will show both a golf cart and an 18-wheel trailer/mobile classroom that run exclusively on either solar or wind energy. Energy transformations in solar cells and wind turbines will be discussed and fuel cells will be demonstrated.
Making a PV Cell
In this activity, you will construct a photovoltaic cell. Demonstrate the chemical reaction between copper and oxygen and the photovoltaic process using copper as a semiconductor.
Calculate your energy footprint
Using laptops in the mobile trailer you will calculate your energy footprint to determine how your energy consumption contributes to air pollution.
Juline is the Program Administrator with the State Energy Conservation Office for energy education grants. Juline also develops curriculum material, organizes, conducts, and evaluates teacher-training workshops.
Juline is a former science teacher with Austin Independent School District (A.I.S.D.). In addition to her teaching position, she served as the Technology Liaison for her campus, training teachers and students in computer literacy. Juline also worked with the district in developing the precursor to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.
Sidney Bolfing is a senior faculty member at Texas State Technical College and Co-Chair of the Electrical Power and Control Program. Sidney is the founder of the Texas Renewable Energy Education Consortium, which is comprised of institutions of higher education that collaborate to share ideas and development efforts in support of evolving sustainable and renewable technologies.
Summer Institute, a component of the MIDAS Project, is supported by a