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Ross McCurdy, Ponaganset High School

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missionof Ponaganset High School’s Fuel Cell Education Initiative is to further the understanding andimplementation of fuel cell technology and to make a contribution towards a more rapid andwide-scale use of fuel cells in society. Education through demonstration is our way of leadingby example, and the initiative strives to demonstrate in a clear and exciting manner that fuel celltechnology is here, now, and it works. The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow; byclearly showing our students the means for a better future, we can make this vision a reality andenable it to become a reality sooner. This report includes the means and methods undertaken byPonaganset High School to achieve the mission, including future plans and goals.Background

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Christopher Papadopoulos; Adeeb Rahman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Josh Bostwick, Cornell University

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correcting details, but rather, to engender within mechanicspedagogy the well-conceived and planned articulation of the concepts that underpin thesedetails. Without such an approach, we will be left with our current situation, so keenly describedby Hestenes et al., The implications could not be more serious. Since the students have evidently not learned the most basic Newtonian concepts, they must have failed to comprehend most of the material in the course. They have been forced to cope with the subject by rote memorization of isolated fragments and by carrying out meaningless tasks. No wonder so many are repelled! The few who are successful have done so by their own devices, the course and the teacher having supplied only the

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Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University

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come.AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by a planning grant from the National Science Foundation,Division of Engineering Education and Centers, under program solicitation NSF-03-562,"Department Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education," Grant Number EEC-0343214. This work has also been supported by the College of Engineering & ComputerScience and the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Wright State University. Page 11.1073.12Bibliography1. Adelman, Clifford, 1998, "Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model for Analyses of Undergraduate Careers," U.S. Department of Education Report, May, 1998.2. Pomalaza-Raez