The EnergySolutions Foundation
The EnergySolutions Foundation is dedicated to the promotion of math, science, and engineering education. We offer a scholarship to 10th grade students in selected high schools in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Washington. We also offer an energy education program that includes a book as well as a menu of teaching tools. The book, Nuclear Energy and the Use of Nuclear Material written by Dr. Raul Deju, President of EnergySolutions and by Dr. Harry Babad contains the a comprehensive overview of the nuclear power cycle. This information is designed to encourage teachers and students to learn more about nuclear energy. The teaching tools, Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Oh My! includes a menu of labs on energy . They serve to increase science processing skills and thereby science literacy. They are not just aimed at educating the population that will work in this industry in the future, the intent is for broad-based education to help future community leaders, politicians, and journalists thereby generating an energy literate society. The labs were created by a number of expert educators. They realize that junior high and high schools students still have much to learn past these levels. They also know that students need to know a real world context for the information provided in an academic environment. Another intent of the information provided is to help teach students how to apply academic knowledge in a career
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