1. “Circumventing Remedial Math Through Renewable Energy Workshops for High School Students” Dr. Matthew J. Cotter Director College Now Program, BCC 3 rd Annual Sustainable Energy and Design Conference

2. What is College Now? College Now is a FREE comprehensive collegiate experience: – Learning while doing: students perform college-level work while enrolled in high school – Survive and thrive: students develop a sense of the character and content of an undergraduate education – They learn what a college will expect from them and what they can expect from a college – Students develop their reading, writing, mathematical, and critical thinking skills— essential to college survival – FY 2010-11—462 students FY 2014-2015: 1,449 students

3. S.T.E.M. Initiatives ERG 11: Introduction to Engineering Design ACS 10: Introduction to Automotive Technology ELC 15: Computer Applications in Technology EST 11: Introduction to Energy Technology Beginning Fall 2016: Math enrichment

4. Staving Off Summer 2015 EST 11 21 11 th and 12 th graders 65-79 on at least one math Regents Compass enrichment Activities

5. Biodiesel at BCC

7. Outcomes 10 12 th graders were eligible to sit for the COMPASS 5 tested out of remediate outright Of the 5 that did not—tested out of MTH 01 100& success rate in EST 11

8. Math “in context” Math (which?) to measure X using ballistics X was implemented to look at biofuel—concentration of solutions, yields of biodiesel relative to the volume of oil we had at the start of the week X to calculate the amount of energy consumed in their lunches—how long it would take to burn it using a bike generator

9. College Now Biodiesel

10. Calculating X

11. Finished Biodiesel!

12. Calculating