Help me give my students access to thermal imaging equipment to complete industry-aligned architecture, engineering, and design projects in a remote environment.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Brown's classroom raised $2,423
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My Students
Since our formation in 2010, we have promoted STEM throughout our community. With over 1,000 hours invested in outreach programs and events, "K" STEM students have inspired generations of future STEM leaders. Our cooperation and communication with the community created a foundation for innovation. Our team motto — kulia i ka nu’u (strive for the summit)motivates our Tiki Techs to develop personal opportunities, deepen their skills base, and empower our rural community.
Our team’s diverse composition (balanced gender ratio, more than 12 different ethnic heritages, a majority of team economically disadvantaged, and some students with special education needs) empowers us to find innovative, effective, and creative solutions to a wide variety of problems.
Our program expanded to a STEM Academy to serve even more students in 2016. Our students are artists, gamers, athletes, dancers, storytellers, and dreamers. They work in collaborative teams to reform and reframe the trajectory of their community.
My Project
We will build an industry-informed, design thinking infused curriculum unit to enable students to design and build a Tiny House. Students will engage in hands-on/minds-on learning to build the model and participate in multiple interior iterations. Students will engage in community building to deepen their sense of and connection to Hawaii and to empower students to feel part of the solutions they want to see in Hawaii.
This project will utilize frequent, multilayered project reflections which allows student metacognition and peer-to-peer feedback loops.
Students will evaluate their state and growth in the Habits of Mind, Mihaly Flow Map, HA Framework, and Grit Scale. Students will complete 8 lessons developed with our industry partners in the concurrent design cycle. Students will also develop professional skills through collaboration, time/project management, Gantt Charts, interdependence project cycling, critical paths, and traditional vocational-technical
skills in the building trades. Our students need to learn how to use tools and be able these skills to real community problems. Student designs will get 4 reviews from industry teams and also develop engineering success criteria to evaluate the project success.
In the process of their design, students will get a better understanding of the principles of engineering behind architectural design. One part of that is understanding thermodynamics and how insulation impacts home utilities. These resources will allow students to complete labs at their home to understand heat dissipation and thermodynamics within building design. Students will design and build sustainable insulation panels that exceed the R-value of styrofoam in a controlled heat box test and consider the implications for Hawai'i building standards.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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