CE, Clean Energy Bright Futures, in collaboration with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit Math & Science Collaborative and TransformEd, is offering a FREE two-day workshop open to K-8 teachers focusing on inquiry and engineering linked to clean energy and grid modernization topics. CE is a career-connected educational program that works to address the increasingly urgent workforce gap in the energy sector and ensure that all citizens have the ability to become active participants in the clean energy economy.

In this two-day workshop on October 15 and 16, teachers will work through rigorous hands-on activities aligned to best practice exploratory techniques in NGSS to build a content background and confidence in tools. Topics may include battery science, wind turbine engineering, solar cars, solar circuitry data collection, grid dynamics, and basic energy transformations. Teachers will also be provided with space and time to collaboratively plan new activities into their current long-term curriculum schedules.

All attendees will be provided with:

• substitute teacher cost reimbursement (processed after completing the workshop)
• lunch
• access to teacher-generated curriculum
• hands-on science kits for the classrooms