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Some consider 13 to be unlucky, but we at the NEED Project and Department of Energy know better, as this was the 13th year for EISP! Each year, Energy Information…

NEED is proud to work with teachers and sponsors that take their solar energy activities well beyond the walls of their classroom and borders of the nation.  Eric Johnson in…

Ashayla Freeman, Opt4STEM Energy Academy participant 2016 We are pleased to have Guest Blogger Ashayla Freeman provide this blog about her experience at the Opt4Stem Energy Academy this summer. The…

What do you get when you cross 93 educators with summer in the Nation’s Capital? The 2016 National Energy Conference for Educators! For five days, passionate K-12 teachers from all…

By Constance Beatty, NEED TAB member and Illinois Youth Awards recipient for Kennedy Middle School Youth…400 teachers, chaperones, and students from as far away as Hawaii gathered in the greater…

By Illinois Teacher and NEED Teacher Advisory Board Member, Constance Beatty When the invitation to write for the ESP grant came across my Facebook feed, I immediately thought of extrasensory…

As the school year ends, we here at NEED are busy celebrating all that schools, teachers, and students have accomplished inside the classroom and out. We’re so proud to be…

Each spring, Philadelphia hosts a week-long, city-wide science festival.  Events include lectures, dinners, tours, stargazing, trivia, pub crawls (for adults, of course), exhibits, and more. The festival is organized by…

By Cassie Chesson There were lots of chocolatey hands at the USA Science and Engineering Festival this weekend, as NEED was there with chocolate syrup in tow! Hundreds of students…

Last week, NEED was happy to be back in Philly to help kick-off yet another awesome year of the PECO Energizing Education Program. This amazing program, funded in part by…