Information on Summer Programs
FREEDM Overview and Experiments
This project is an Engineering Research Center Grant funded by the National Science Foundation and industry partners (Award #0812121, Division of Engineering Education and Centers).
On May 25, visitors from NC State University’s FREEDM Systems Center Expert Classroom Visitor Program visited science teachers at Graham High School. These visitors were enthusiastic graduate students from the Center shared their experience in studying for degrees in Electrical Engineering. The Graham HS students experienced a variety of experiments at seven different stations during the event. Some stations involved assembling circuits, investigating wind turbines, and testing a solar panel. Ben VonEitzen arranged the visit for his physical science classes. Mr. VonEitzen's science department colleague, Valerie Sellars, has been selected for the Research Experience for Teachers at NC State this summer. Graham High School hosted the FREEDM Renewable Energy camp for students in grades 6 through 9. It will be held there again this summer from July 25-28.
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Mr. Jamie Defelice (Principal) and Mr. Daniel Camp (Assistant Principal) of Graham High School in Graham, NC welcomed five visitors from NC State University’s FREEDM Systems Center from July 26 – 29th for a Renewable Energy Camp for students in grades 6 through 9. This camp, led by the Center’s precollege coordinator, Dr. Lisa Grable, served 19 students from the Alamance Burlington School System (ABSS). The students experienced learning science and engineering concepts by hands-on experiments, presentations, and art projects. Topics included renewable and non-renewable energy sources, photoelectric effect, solar powered robots (pictured here racing solar frogs built by the students), solar panels and daily science-based presentations by students and staff. A field trip to NC State’s campus, The Science House of NC State, Harris Nuclear Facility and the LEED McDonald’s in Cary, NC encompassed the camp highlights. Special thanks go to members of the ABSS for physical and administrative support during this process.
Students in Dr. Johnson’s and Mr. Spetzler’s classes at The Hawbridge School welcomed visitors from NC State University’s FREEDM Systems Center Expert Classroom Visitor Program on April 9, 2010. Visitors included five enthusiastic graduate students (Aaron Curry, Daniel Fregosi, Ghazal Falahi, Phillip Funderburk, and Rohit Rajesekharan --pictured above) from NC State University, and the Center's precollege coordinator, Dr. Lisa Grable. Students from The Hawbridge School were able to experience a variety of experiments at seven different stations during the event. Some stations involved assembling circuits, investigating wind turbines, and even using an apple as a battery. Special thanks goes to NSF Young Scholar, Aleana J. (pictured right) for inviting Dr. Grable to visit her school. Aleana plans to attend NC State starting in the Fall of 2010.
The Science House, an outreach center of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at NC State University, is a national model for the interaction of university science departments and K-12 students and teachers. The Science House has been providing teacher professional development and programming for students in science, mathematics, engineering and technology since 1991. The precollege program for the FREEDM Systems Center is a collaboration between The Science House, the Center for Integrating Research and Learning at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, and the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University.