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ROCKLAND The Island Institute, a membership-based nonprofit organization, has received a competitive $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand the development, implementation and evaluation of an educational model designed to increase the science, technology, engineering and math competencies and career aspirations of students in rural communities. Energy for ME, which first received $50,000 last summer from Time Warner Cables Connect a Million Minds initiative for a pilot project on North Haven and Vinalhaven, also received $124,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency last fall.
The overall goal of Energy for ME is to provide students with tools to help them decide their communities energy futures. Working with 13 of Maines year-round island and coastal communities, Energy for ME will engage at least 50 teachers, 100 students and their families to increase energy knowledge and technology proficiencies by analyzing, discussing and responding to locally relevant energy issues. Students and their families will learn to measure energy usage and explore renewable energy sources with the goal of increasing home and school energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption. Participants at each project site will measure energy usage at their school, a community building and two residences, competing with the other community sites to see who can save the most energy.See the full content of this document
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