2025 CITGO Energy Education Workshop for Teachers – Bolingbrook, IL

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Date and Location
April 26, 2025
Hilton Garden Inn Bolingbrook
135 Remington Blvd
Bolingbrook, IL 60440

For The Attendees:
• Hands-on kits and curriculum materials
• A great day of hands-on learning and professional networking
• Breakfast and lunch
• Stipend Provided

Who Should Attend:
• 4th to 12th grade science educators
• CTE educators
• Afterschool program leaders

Questions
Contact Wendi Moss at wmoss@need.org or
call 1-800-875-5029

Agenda

8:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
Pick up curriculum materials and supplies and network during breakfast

8:30 a.m. Welcome and Today’s Goals and Objectives
Meet your fellow participants. Review goals and objectives for the workshop and begin planning ways to use the NEED materials and training in your school. Play Oil and Gas Bingo!

9:00 a.m. The Science of Energy
Learn more about the forms of energy and energy transformations while exploring the stations of the Science of Energy kit. CITGO’s sponsorship provides each teacher with a Science of Energy Kit.

10:45 a.m. Energy Enigma
After learning about the Science of Energy, participants will begin studying the sources of energy. What are they? Where do they come from? How do we use each of the 10 sources of energy?

11:45 a.m. Exploring Oil and Natural Gas and Fossil Fuels to Products
These lessons and activities help students understand the exploration, production and use of the nation’s oil and natural gas. CITGO’s sponsorship provides each teacher with an Oil & Gas Kit.
• Core Sampling
• Porosity
• Getting the Oil Out
• Refining Maze
• Polymers
• Petroleum Ponder

12:00 p.m. Lunch

12:45 p.m. Exploring Oil and Natural Gas and Fossil Fuels to Products (con’t)

2:30 p.m. Oil and Gas Career Roundup

3:00 p.m. CITGO’s Student Energy Workshops

3:15 p.m. Q&A and Workshop Paperwork

3:30 p.m. Adjourn