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People interested in history and geography are going to love what a group of innovative educators, students, historians and the National Park Service have in store for them. Next year, visitors to Keweenaw National Historical Park will be able to use the Keweenaw Time Traveler, an online atlas, to find out where any local resident from the last 100 years lived, worked and attended school or religious activities.The National Science Foundation –

The GRACE Project for the Upper Peninsula (GRACE for UP) of Keweenaw County, Michigan is an amazing project-model for GIS-based education, with high school students using Esri GIS on two related real-world community projects in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the National Parks Celebration.Not only is it a fertile ground for students firsthand, it provides professional development training for teachers so they can integrate GIS/T into

The GRACE project was selected to receive a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) award at the 2016 Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) User Conference. This award is given to user sites around he world to recognize outstanding work with GIS technology (for outstanding vision, commitment, design, and conduct of a very challenging project). Our project stood out from more than 100,000 others. In addition to receiving this award, ESRI

STELAR congratulates ITEST PI Rita Karl and project staff members Bradley McLain and Alicia Santiago of SciGirls Strategies: Gender Equitable Teaching Practices in Career and Technical Education Pathways for High School Girls for their recent publication in Connected Science Learning! The project is featured in the second issue of the journal, which is focued on professional development experiences. SciGirls Strategies appears as an "Emerging

Dr. Lauren Birney and staff of the ITEST project "Curriculum and Community Enterprise for New York Harbor Restoration in New York City Public Schools" were recently featured on the National Science Foundation's Science Nation online magazine, in the article "Hands-on learning research that benefits the economy, environment."Click here to read the full article on NSF's website, or view the video below.

So we have signed the Paris Agreement and cheered about it. Now what?More than a year ago, I wrote a proposal to the National Science Foundation to test the feasibility of empowering students to help combat the energy issues of our nation. There are hundreds of millions of buildings in our country and some of them are pretty big energy losers. The home energy industry currently employs probably 100,000 people at most. It would take them a few

The annual yield and cost benefit analyses of rooftop solar panels based on sound scientific and engineering principles are critical steps to the financial success of building solarization. Google's Project Sunroof provides a way for millions of property owners to get recommendations for the right solar solutions.Another way to conduct accurate scientific analysis of solar panel outputs based on their layout on the rooftop is to use a computer

Solarize Mass is a program launched by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center that seeks to increase the adoption of small-scale solar electricity in participating communities. In 2016, the towns of Natick and Bolton were selected to pilot for Solarize Mass. According to the Town of Natick, "Solarize Mass Natick is a volunteer initiative run by Natick residents. Our goal is to make going solar simple and affordable for Natick residents and small

The free Solar Engineering Summer Camp offered by the Concord Consortium was an intensive week-long event that focused on learning and applying solar science, 3D modeling, and engineering design. It featured a solar engineer from a leading solar company as a guest speaker. The activities included hands-on and computer-based activities that were designed to inspire and empower children to solve real-world problems and become change makers who will