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2023-2024 Clean Energy Fellows: Pennsylvania Cohort

This cohort of educators from across Pennsylvania explored, tested, and designed innovative and equitable tools for engaging students in the rapidly innovating Pennsylvania energy sector which align with statewide STEELS Standards. These leaders worked in a small cohort to collaboratively plan classroom activities and school programming that built connections between students, the emerging energy workforce, and the advanced grid.

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Two rows of Kidwind turbine models with their student materials sit on a lab table
Two students stand at a lab table with a Kidwind wind turbine model connected to a multimeter.
Two boys hold wood, pipes, dowels, and plastic pieces to assemble Kidwind turbine models.
Two boys adjust the turbine hub on a Kidwind wind turbine model
Student holds a paper in front of a class of mixed age students who stand and sit around lab tables.
A student shares a screen of "Charts and Graphs" which shows a bar graph with trendline, a histogram, and three different line graphs with trend lines
A lamp shines above a solar module which is wired to a device in a green basin of water, unseen by a hand. A clear tube is held in the hand and water is coming through the tube.
Teacher sits in a chair and reads from Everyday Superheros to a group of seated girls.
Teacher shows a card to the class while a screen shows fuel pellets, how they are assembled into rods and fundamentals of fusion

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2023-2024 Clean Energy Fellows: Pennsylvania Cohort Showcase Celebration

Collaborative Partners

KidWind
Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant
Duquesne Light
Chief Science Officers Program
Locust Ridge Renewables
Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance
PPL Electric Utilities
Arconic Foundation

Funding Partners

3Degrees

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“  My Clean Energy Fellowship experience revolutionized my science classroom, providing a platform to refine my teaching through peer review and inspiring fresh approaches through exposure to diverse educational practices. The generous financial support was instrumental in equipping students with hands-on clean energy technology.“

Kurt Eck

2023-2024 Clean Energy Fellow, Pennsylvania Cohort, Danville PA

Meet the Clean Energy Fellows

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Kurt Eck

Saint Joseph School, Danville PA

Kurt has extensive experience as a classroom and outside of classroom educator (Scouting and 4-H). He developed a place-based curriculum for his students to explore the history of energy in Pennsylvania that explores impacts of the coal industry.

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Brian Grubbs

Western Beaver Jr/Sr High School, Industry PA

Brian has 30 years of teaching experience and has developed curriculum for a new Environmental Science for his school with regional place-based focus on energy in Pennsylvania.