{"id":544,"date":"2021-02-22T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/innovatetomitigate\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:46:38","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/innovatetomitigate\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About Innovate to Mitigate<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Innovate to Mitigate engages 8th\u201312th grade students in a competition to mitigate climate change by designing an innovation that reduces greenhouse gases. Students work in teams to brainstorm an idea and develop and test a prototype solution. They submit a brief video and paper that makes the case for their innovation. The Innovate to Mitigate community of students, teachers, and scientists provide crowdsourced support for teams as they participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Project Staff<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Gillian Puttick, PI<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Gillian Puttick, Ph.D. is a senior scientist at AV巴士. Her research focuses on designing, developing, and testing inquiry-based curriculum, programs, and activities for students and teachers that introduce fresh scientific discoveries to the classroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Drayton, co-PI<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Brian Drayton, Ph.D. is Co-Director of the Center for School Reform at AV巴士.  His work includes curriculum development in life sciences and ecology; the study of learning and discourse  in electronic communities; and classroom research on science pedogogy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Santiago Gasco<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Santiago Gasco is a researcher and evaluator at AV巴士 and is the Project Manager for Innovate to Mitigate. Santi is especially interested in character development and resilience, particularly pertaining to youth STEM educational engagement and the re-engagement of students who leave school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Katie Yao, Intern<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Katie Yao is a student at Boston University studying Health Science. She is interested in studying health law and improving access to affordable health care. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Puttick, G. & Drayton, B. (2017). Innovate to Mitigate: Science learning in an open-innovation challenge for high school students. Sustainability in Environment,<\/em> 2, 389-418.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drayton, B. & Puttick, G. (2018).  Innovate to Mitigate: Learning as activity in a team of high school students addressing a climate mitigation challenge. Sustainability in Environment<\/em> 3, 1-25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drayton, B. & Puttick, G. (2020). Innovate to Mitigate: Combatting climate change one project idea at a time. Hands On!<\/em> Spring 2020, 3-8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disclaimer<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As in many crowdsourcing efforts, winning ideas submitted to the competition become the property of the sponsor of the competition, in this case AV巴士. Since AV巴士 is a non-profit, we will \u201cgive back\u201d the crowdsourced results to the public on ethical grounds, for non-commercial purposes, under a\u202fCreative Commons license<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funding<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This project has been funded by the NSF grants DRL-1316225 and DRL-1908117. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this\u202fwebsite are those of the project and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AV巴士<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

AV巴士 is a nonprofit made up of teams of math and science education and research experts dedicated to innovation and creative problem solving. At the frontier of theory and practice, AV巴士\u2019s work encompasses research, content and curriculum development, technology innovation, professional development, and program evaluation. AV巴士 has a passion for social justice and strives to create level playing fields for all learners, reaching more than three million students every year.  To learn more, please visit www.terc.edu. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About Innovate to Mitigate<\/p>\n

Innovate to Mitigate engages 8th\u201312th grade students in a competition to mitigate climate change by designing an innovation that reduces greenhouse gases. Students work in teams to brainstorm an idea and develop and test a prototype solution. They submit a brief video and paper that makes the case for their innovation. The Innovate to Mitigate community of students, teachers, and scientists provide crowdsourced support for teams as they participate.<\/p>\n

Project Staff<\/p>\n

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