1. Innovation Challenge and Audit
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Innovation Challenge and Audit

2. So you’ve been accepted, NOW WHAT?
Return your W-9 ASAP.
Get ready to teach some energy OR review some content.
Prepare your administrators by filling them in on the details we’re about to discuss.
Get that audit date on the calendar!

3. The Challenge
Engage in energy-focused STEM activities in your classroom/club setting
Choose/design an energy innovation challenge
Document & share your work on the activities and the challenge
Prepare your final project presentation
Attend the celebration

4. Energy-focused STEM activities
use existing NEED materials and other curriculum or student research to cover any content related to:
energy transformations
sources of energy (renewable, nonrenewable)
electricity (generation, transmission, consumption)
energy technologies
industry careers
efficiency and conservation of energy and materials
Inquiry-based, hands-on, student-driven, opportunities for leadership

5. Challenge
Take an energy concept and do something innovative with an energy challenge. Amplify your students’ learning by encouraging them to think beyond the usual lab activity:
Start with a problem
Think about how it could be solved
Gather data
Devise a plan
Build or design or create
Use your $500 grant to defray costs

6. Challenge starters – just a start
Microgrid
Solar
Electric vehicles
PA power generation mix
Technology for efficiency and conservation
No reason you can’t start with something and evolve it into something different.

7. PEEP is SOCIAL! Share your Progress.
Document all classroom activities and progress on the challenge.
Post pictures, updates, videos, project progress, etc., using the hashtag, #pecopeep. Post to Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram.
Each participating school is asked to post 1-2x per month between now and the celebration.
Make arrangements to gain approvals post content, and/or request your school’s account make the submissions if you like.

8. Prepare to present
Depending on the nature of your student-selected challenge students will need to have some deliverable (or combination):
Display
Model
video
Poster
COMPLETE BY JUNE 5th.
***Item MUST be able to travel 

9. Celebrate Bring students to TFI on June 6, 2017 Students will be fed
Requirement
Small contingent of students
Transportation help can be arranged
Students will be fed
Students will have the opportunity to tour TFI
Students will learn about career opportunities from professionals
Students will present their findings & solutions to fellow students and STEM professionals in the energy industry and beyond
Students & schools will be recognized for participation

10. AUDIT THIS!
You will be given a date and time slot based on your preference during application.
A CEM will contact you (Caryn or Todd)
They may provide you with a short list of things to do ahead of time.
You will receive a Monitoring and Mentoring Kit from NEED.
You will use the tools during your audit, unwrap them and have them ready.
Prepare permission to be with your students, enter school spaces, etc.
Select up to 15 students to participate – prepare permissions for students, too!
Plan for 2-3 hours, maximum

11. Contacts: Sharon Kiefer, The Franklin Instituteor
Logistics, timeline, grant checks, celebration/symposium
Emily Hawbaker, NEED or
Innovation challenge projects, curriculum, materials, troubleshooting