Pre-College Education and Outreach
Targeted outcomes for the first five years of the QESST Pre-College Education outreach program include:
- Establishing Young Scholars programs at all partner institutions with PV engineering projects
- Initiating Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site grant
- Developing and distributing culturally relevant PV engineering curricular materials to partner schools as a part of the RET and REU programs
- Offering monthly curricular modules at ASU teacher education hub sites through Fulton Teachers College to reach teacher certification candidates, thereby impacting the next generation of K-12 teachers
- Including solar engineering in existing after-school programs offered by ASU and partner institutions
- Conducting small-scale teacher professional development with follow-up curricular implementation in K-12 classrooms
- Supporting existing programs like Solar Decathlon with industry partnerships
- Embedding energy, solar energy and PV education with workforce development emphasis in teacher professional development and after-school programs
- Developing interactive displays about PV education on ASU campus as outreach to K-12 students and the general public
- Offering topics related to QESST PV research at Arizona Science Center’s Science Café events each year as outreach and engagement with the general public
- Installing a solar tracker with industry partner support on the ASU campus that will aid pre-college and outreach program efforts with data about PV usage
- Establishing networks with partner universities for K-12 dissemination