Eight schools in the Alamance-Burlington School System are partnering with Science House for the FREEDM Systems Center pre-college programs. This center is the result of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for an Engineering Research Center based at NC State. The NSF is interested in studying the process of a large research center working in a close relationship with a small number of schools. We welcome ABSS to being part of The Science House outlook - we work with lots of people but in very local contexts, such as in our satellite offices.
A special dimension of this Engineering Research Center is the emphasis on education for students at the graduate, undergraduate, high school, and middle school level and teachers. Pre-college activities include:
Another feature of the FREEDM Systems Center Pre-college Programs is the Science House partnership with the Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development. Nina Morley Daye from Orange High School, Kenan Fellow in the Class of 2011 will develop curriculum materials around renewable energy concepts.
The Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management Systems Center (FREEDM Systems Center) will conduct research to transform the nation’s power grid into an efficient network that integrates alternative energy generation and new storage methods with existing power sources. In other words, the researchers are working on the “smart grid”! Partnering with NC State are Arizona State, Florida State, Florida A&M University, and Missouri University of Science and Technology. The core international universities of the center are RWTH Aachen University in Germany and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland.
Want to learn more about the FREEDM Systems Center Pre-college Programs? See http://www.science-house.org/freedm/
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