Is The Future of Clean Energy Technology in Peril?
Help me give my students proper long-life measuring and drafting tools necessary to design and build the projects required in the Clean Energy Technology class.
The students in my Clean Energy Technology Classes are dedicated to understand, develop, and build specified projects that are designed to introduce them to the 21st century methodologies associated with technologies that are renewable to society.
The majority of my students, are considered as low income and have not been afforded the opportunities to attend classes created to design and construct real-time working machines and utilize monitoring equipment that may provide careers for many of these students facing many coal-centered cultures in the state of West Virginia.
My Project
The ability of students to design and draft images of both real and imagined devices in which others can convert into working projects is the backbone of the Clean Energy Technology program at our school. Projecting what the mind sees as well as the eyes, is a fundamental requirement for the class participants.
As simple as it may sound, many students are ultimately stymied from the very beginning of the activity.
Imagine, trying to draw a straight line on a sheet of paper with a plastic or wooden ruler with marred edges and missing numerical increments. Nothing is more frustrating than to lose track of your concentration as you draw or spend precious class time waiting to use a straight edged ruler that is not fragmented, broken, or littered with initials or most uncolorful words and phrases.
Procuring these rulers would not only give students a strong, clean, edge to create their drawings, and a no wait interval, it will also provide another function. It will allow them to measure objects on a smaller scale and learn how to "read" the rulers' alignment of measuring increments and symbols which eludes most students.
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