Energy

In mid-July, 31 teachers attended a 2-day workshop focusing on solar science and energy.  Teachers were given ideas, lesson plans, and in partnership with NEED, each teacher received a Science…

A guest blog written by Matthew Inman, U.S. Department of Energy What We’re Doing & Why To better educate Americans, The U.S. Department of Energy is leading a collaborative effort, the…

The Project for Innovation, Energy & Sustainability (PiES) held the first annual Green Idea Factory Competition on April 14th as part of the 2012 North Carolina Science Festival.  Students from Lake…

The Tour de Energy Bike continued today at Lewisdale Elementary School in Hyattsville, Maryland. Lewisdale Elementary celebrated Earth Day today with a wide variety of hands on activities that, in…

Constellation Energy hosted Energy Education Day at Sunset Elementary in Pasadena, MD on March 23rd! All of the 4th and 5th grade students participated in activities using the energy bike which allows…

At NEED, we love what we do. We are always honored that you love it too! So it’s always a real treat to hear how our curriculum and commitment to student leadership impacts students across the country.  Recently,…

Children learn much more by the examples that adults in their lives set than they do by simply listening to what they are told. We are teaching our children to…

Listening to the news recently I heard commentators talking about current gas prices.  They are heading north of $3.40 per gallon in my area at the moment.  The commentator went on to…

On January 19th, Sierra Middle School in Bakersfield California celebrated the official opening of their 20 kilowatt solar array.  The array was made possible with a grant of $200,000 from the…

EduCon 2.4 in Philadelphia started last night with a panel discussion and one message from the esteemed group was “you need to fail to succeed”. Fail fast, fail often is…