SURE HOUSE

As the Stevens Institute of Technology design team puts the finishing touches on its solar-powered, storm-resilient home – the SURE HOUSE – to compete in the upcoming Solar Decathlon in Irvine, California, 39 teachers from 14 New Jersey school districts took part in a week-long workshop (July 27-31) at Stevens’ Griffith Building to develop SURE HOUSE-inspired lesson plans to take back to their schools.

The workshop, a collaboration between the SURE HOUSE team and the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens, was made possible by the Partnership to Improve Student Achievement (PISA2). Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), PISA2 engages 3rd-through-8th-grade teachers in more than a dozen New Jersey school districts to participate in either graduate-level science course classes or a series of week-long summer institutes.

Gregory Bartus, adjunct professor and senior STEM curriculum and professional development specialist at CIESE, says Stevens’ participation in the Solar Decathlon presented a unique opportunity for CIESE to expose teachers to a real-world application of systems engineering through its PISA2 workshop.

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