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NREL’s 27th Annual Car Competition
On Saturday, Energy Day Colorado attended the 27th Annual NREL Junior Solar Sprint and Lithion-Ion Battery Car Competition. It was a beautiful day in Denver as we awarded the winning teams for their hard work in STEM. Congratulations to Stargate School for winning the...
2017 Science Engineering Fair Houston
We attended our first awards ceremony of the 2017 EDAP season, and it was one for the books. Look at how many young ladies were awarded for their achievements in STEM at this year's SEFH! We are so proud to be a part of so many competitions that allow students to...
Impact the Next Generation!
For the last ten or so years, we have been hearing a loud call from companies, economic development administrators, and workforce leaders regarding the need for skilled employees in STEM fields to feed the future of STEM industries and our communities. Energy Day...
Caitlin Lau
Caitlin Lau won an award for the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing in 2016. Caitlin is currently (2016) a high school junior with great interests in the Computer Science field. Her curious and adaptable nature has led her to try many new things. When Caitlin was first...
Paige Moore
Paige Moore graduated Valedictorian from Young Women's College Preparatory Academy (YWCPA), an Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) school, in 2016, and she is currently attending Smith College in Massachusetts. She was active in community service,...
Jeffrey (Jaewoo) Heo
Jeffrey (Jaewoo) Heo is currently (2016) a junior attending school at Seoul International School, South Korea. He moved from Korea to Singapore, where he lived for a year and attended an international school for the first time in 2nd grade. While living in Singapore...
Uma Sethuraman
Uma Sethuraman is currently (2016) an 11th grade student at William P. Clements High School. In her 2016 Science Fair Project, Uma developed a new, innovative approach to the problem of school scheduling by creating a genetic algorithm to optimize school scheduling....
Temitope Oye
Temitope Oye won an award for the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing in 2016. Temi has been interested in science, technology, and space since elementary school. She started looking further into her interest in computer science in 6th grade when she started learning HTML....
EDAP Winners’ Bios
We try to keep up with our previous years' award winners, and we feature information here about what they're doing now. We hope this will inspire more students in younger grades to continue to explore and create in STEM subjects. Temitope Oye Uma Sethuraman Jeffrey...
Energy Day Featured in BSEE Article
Energy Day was featured in a US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) article. HOUSTON ENERGY DAY FESTIVAL A BIG HIT WITH YOUNG SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS By Bill Lee, BSEE Public Affairs Specialist Where can one go on a non-school day and find: a...
Whose Bounces the Most Times?
Most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, but usually it's the students who struggle with "exploration". We have created a a post with ideas, activities, and experiments geared toward exploration, and here is one of those, which can be done...
Neutral Buoyancy Exploration
Most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, but usually it's the students who struggle with "exploration". We have created a a post with ideas, activities, and experiments geared toward exploration, and here is one of those, which can be done...
The Importance of Exploration
Though most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, it's usually the students who struggle with "exploration". We are living in a world where students get immediate feedback whenever they make decisions, so they've come to expect it, and they're...
STEM Challenges
Anyone who has been a teacher or a parent knows how difficult it is to keep a child (of any age) focused on school when they're excited about something. Whether that something is a holiday, a party, or a break from school, our challenge as the adult is to keep the...
2016 SeaPerch Competition Winners
We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2016 SeaPerch Competition: Kye Lee-Smith, Eric Zhang, Brian Towne, Colby Patterson, Anna Wilson, Rachel Hamilton, Tommy Wilson, Sofia Trevino, Carmen Mendez, Cooper Williams, Christopher Hugo Escobar, Nathan Vipal,...
2016 ISWEEEP Winners
We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2016 The International Sustainable World Energy, Engineering, and Environment Project (I-SWEEEP): Jaewoo Heo, Vikram Pandian, Zury Cutler, Emily Huang, Vaishali Tikoo, Drew Provost, William Yin, Julia Riley, Arjun...
2016 C-STEM Challenge Winners
We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2016 Communications, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (C-STEM) Challenge: Patrick Frain, Emili Arnautovic, Kendall Maffet, Armon Alex, Derrick Ngo, and Nasario Trejo, Jr. A huge thank you to Dixie Chemical...
2016 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Winners
We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2016 National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing: Isabel Li, Temitope Oyewuwo, Kanchana Raja, Asha Jackson, Paige Moore, Jacqueline Deans, Caitlin Lau, Uma Sethuraman, and...
2016 Science Engineering Fair Houston Winners
We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2016 Science Engineering Fair Houston: Hina Akbar, Annie Zhang, Jenny Qu, Vidisha Ganesh, Akhil Majmudar, Andrew Liu, Smiti Gandhi, Maria Lopez, Adham Kassem, Hasnain Khan, Mujtaba Hussain, Brianna Lola, Katelynn...
2016 All-Earth Ecobot Challenge Winners
We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2016 All-Earth Ecobot Challenge: Rafael Elorza, Chris Frias, Jonathan Mejia, and the Glamour Bots. A huge thank you to Golden Pass for sponsoring the awards for these students! Without industry partners like Golden...