IOWA LAKES RECEIVES SUSTAINABLE ENERGY GRANT

Iowa Lakes Community College, has received a grant to educate young people on the benefits of sustainable energy.

This project will involve college faculty creating sustainable energy education modules for middle school students. The goal is to deliver sustainable energy education across Iowa. A web-based energy seminar for instructors will be developed. The focus of the seminar will cover how to deliver energy education modules to students.

College faculty will provide curriculum to incorporate into lesson plans. Naturalists will give middle school students presentations about sustainable energy; and introduce them to several renewable energy topics including an introduction to sustainable energy, wind energy and biomass fuels (ethanol and biodiesel.)

Professor Gary Phillips will coordinate this partnership project with county Conservation Board naturalists.

“We are extremely pleased to be entering into this project with the EPA and believe this will give us an opportunity to introduce the concepts of sustainable energy to a very large number of students across the state of Iowa,” said Phillips, Professor of Environmental Studies at Iowa Lakes. “This is going to be a very valuable project for the citizens of our state.”

Funding for this $15,313 project is from the Environmental Protection Agency.