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

• Time Travel Award

• Best Teeter Totter • 65 lb Test Award

• Best Pit Crew

• Best Crush

• Most Dangerous

Most Reliable

Most

Suspenseful Highest Commodity

12 Students Completed 3 Design Documents in the Fall and

Started Building in the Spring

Garden contains relevant cultural elements.

Garden contains relevant cultural elements

Assessment Results

• Students feel more confident about college

• However, at this point, no one is interested in pursuing engineering…. “too much paperwork

• Final assessment after end of project is planned this month.