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Beginning in September 2011, the Sustainability Workshop will allow 30 high school students to spend their entire senior year at the Philadelphia Navy Yard’s clean energy campus, working on cutting edge projects focused on improving the energy efficiency of building design, construction, and renovation. The Workshop is being launched with three major partners: the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC), a $122 million U.S. Department of Energy initiative to create a research and development, business incubation, policy, education and workforce development hub for energy-efficient design and building at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.; the School District of Philadelphia, which will award students course credit for their work; and Drexel University, which will collaborate with the Workshop on its “Eco-House” project and allow student to enroll in courses on campus. The Workshop curriculum will be divided into two phases. The first phase will introduce students to the fundamentals of clean energy by having teams of students work to increase the energy efficiency of a room within the school, and then within their own homes. The teams will consult with various GPIC partners and Drexel faculty about strategies for maximizing energy efficiency. The second phase will focus on planning and designing the Drexel University Eco-House project. During this phase, students will form small teams focusing on specific GPIC innovations. In keeping with the broad scope of the GPIC’s work, an innovation could be a specific technology, a process, a policy, or some combination of the three. |