Money for the Hudson and students

October

The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, along with Clarkson University in Potsdam, announced yesterday that they are sharing in a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant.

“Beacon Institute and Clarkson received the award to expand their Student Enabled Network of Sensors for the Environment using Innovative Technology (SENSE IT) curriculum, a program that will teach 9,000 New York high school students over three years to design, build, test, deploy and interpret environmental sensors used to monitor water quality in the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers. The program also includes intensive teacher training sessions on cutting-edge technological and education skills, and requires long-term commitments by schools to utilize these methods. Students and teachers will work directly with the River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON) initiative that is being implemented by Beacon Institute, IBM and Clarkson.”

Read the institute’s announcement here.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 10:24 am by Mike Risinit.
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