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education
AWEA Education Working Group
The Education Working Group provides a forum for wind industry members and individuals from the educational community to promote: wind education programs for Kindergarten through the 12th grade; job and career training programs for Community and Technical Colleges; academic and career development programs at Undergraduate and Graduate institutions; and scholarship opportunities through the “AWEA Educational Scholarship Program”. The group will meet up to three times each year and interact through emails and an online eCommunity forum.
Education Working Group Chair: Michelle Montague
Marketing & Communications Manager
Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation
michelle.montague@suzlon.com
Kindergarten-12th Grade Goals:
- Increase marketing of existing K-12 curriculum developed by AWEA
and NEED
a. Focus on disseminating information to AWEA membership, “Wind Energy Works” members and Project Developers
b. Disseminate information through AWEA events & WINDPOWER
c. Identify external organizations that for distribution of educational materials
- Continue to refine and expand current K-12 curriculum
- Develop case studies and examples of pathways (types of jobs) into the industry
Sub Group Lead: Mary Spruill
Executive Director
NEED (National Energy Education Development)
mspruill@need.org
Technical/Community College Goals:
- Develop introductory workforce training program
- Develop guidelines for a standardized curriculum (for one and two-year degree programs)
- Identify technical and community colleges that have created a training program on wind energy
Sub Group Lead: Tracy Rascoe
Undergraduate/Graduate College Goals:
- Develop consortium database and/or curriculum database of university and graduate wind/renewable energy classes or programs
- Create a Universities Guide based on current ‘wind for schools’ effort at Department of Energy (DOE)
- Build a listing of manufacturers and developers that currently support Universities
Sub Group Lead: Jonathan J. Miles, Ph.D.
Energy Specialist
James Madison University
milesjj@jmu.edu
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