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Teachers InstituteMicro Hydro Follow Up
Lonny GrafmanBeth Eschenbach, Ph.D.
Environmental Resources EngineeringHumboldt State University
Outline for the Day
• Check In• Pre – Assessment• Why are we here?• Update on DYF at
HVHS• Update from others• Break
• Micro hydro basics• Micro hydro fieldwork• Lunch• Micro hydro
Advanced• Discussion, Synthesis
& Reflection• Post-Assessment
Folks across the country are interested in increasing the
number of students that go into STEM
• Next six slides are from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology
“I would like to request that California Council on Science and Technology use its resources - experts in all fields of science and technology who are committed to a strong and vibrant California economy - and report back to me on how the State can better understand and use the assets at its disposal to build the infrastructure needed to lead the economy of the future.”
-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
4 CEO-led Task Forces CA’s version of the NA’s four main
recommendations from Susan Hackwood, Board member of
California Council on Science and Technology
Mapping California’s science and technologyMapping California’s science and technologyeducation system: drilling down to detailseducation system: drilling down to details
CREST(1999)
Critical Path Analysis(2002)
Teacher CPA(2007)
from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology
The Shrinking PieThe Shrinking Pie
•Only 4% of 9th graders graduate in S&E
•Up to 60% lost in college
•32% CCC transfers
from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology
Source: Department of Finance.
California’s racial diversificationCalifornia’s racial diversification 2006-2020 projection 2006-2020 projection
Other9.2%
Asian12.1%
White42.8%
Hispanic35.9%
Other8.7%
Asian12.5%
White37.4%
Hispanic41.4%
2006 2020
from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology
Failure to achieve in education will have economic Failure to achieve in education will have economic consequencesconsequences
Projected Change in Personal Income per Capita by State, 2000-2020Source: National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (2005)
from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology
• As recommended in TCPA, organized meeting in May 2007 to discuss a “teacher-scientist” model of professional learning & development
• CSU Cal Poly, US DOE Office of Science, and NASA Ames plan an expansion of Teacher-Scientist Initiative
• Model involves implementation of Science Teacher and Researcher (STAR) summer research internship program in federal labs
300 > 3,000 (total 40,000)
Teachers as Scientists & EngineersTeachers as Scientists & Engineers
from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology
DYF at HVHS Rube Goldberg Results
• INJUNeers
• Sizzle Your Pits
• The Destroyers
• The Bear Traps
Team