Interested in learning new ways to incorporate effective and engaging renewable energy in your classroom? Apply to the 2023 NC STEM Educator Energy Institute and learn from a team of technical educators with over 50 years of renewable energy experience.
The Institute, put on in collaboration with Central Carolina Community College, the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE), and the National Science Foundation, is designed to provide educators:
- An opportunity to gain hands-on experience with tools of the trade
- Complete classroom and lab activities that will bring solar energy to life in your classroom.
- A chance to network with other STEM and Energy Instructors
- Access to funds for materials to use in your classroom
Each Institute Participants will receive:
- Free Hotel and Meal (breakfast & lunch) Accommodations
- $600 stipend upon completion of the Institute
- One Graduate Credit (optional, $60 cost to participant)
- Equipment award up to $1200/participant for classroom supplies
- Access to all of the CREATE energy curriculum modules
- Workshop
- Agricultural and Environmental Technologies