Summer camp kiddies was about camp fires and speedos and spying on the opposite sex in
fact thats what its still about.
some maybe, summer camp for some students from the Mountain counties of Eastern Kentucky
was far different thanks to a unique summer camp experience at the University of Louisville.
Mark Hebert from UofL explains how the students helped with research and renewable energy
nothing like, not that kind of energy, not that kind of energy Terry.
Terrible UofL camper this summer.
This is like thinking cap, thinking cap this is kids, bright kids from Eastern Ky counties
where coal has been around for years and years and is the main economic engine in eastern
Kentucky.
well at the University of Louisville we got the Conn Center for renewable energy research
which is looking into all these different energy sources like bio fuels and those kinds
of things using different things to make energy so they came to the Univeristy of Louisville
this summer for a little over a week and they worked with the researchers at the Conn Center
on alright, what are these different types of energy sources we got so here's the story.
These high school students are a long way from their eastern Kentucky homes, they are
attending a summer camp at the University of Louisville Conn Center for renewable energy
learning to do research.
the camp focuses on understanding renewable energy themes and challenges and tries to
help high school students with, develop their ideas towards science fair projects, and also
just to increase awareness of STEM topics.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
We are teaching the students about solar energy conversion, taking the suns energy and turning
that into electricity, bio fuels, solar fuels, which is splitting of water for hydrogen generation
toward fuels and a number of other topics that have to do with genesis of materials
that would be used in energy efficient and renewable energy devices.
The students come from 7 different Promozione counties, those are poor rural counties in
coal country.
while at UofL the students heard from UofL leaders like Speed School of Engineering acting
dean John Usher and every morning there is a 3 hour lecture from the best professors
then here's the reflection we want that to be going back into the light.
i the afternoons we completed 4 different labs in very different areas of renewable
energy so we had one that was about advanced materials and energy storage, one that was
about solar cells and solar fuels and then we had a final lab about batteries and how
we can store energy that way.
I think what I have learned here will help me definitely in my community to educate others
about what change needs to be made, definitely right now how coal i kind of declining.
I like to think that there is gold minds waiting to happen there, there great ideas and I could
see them being implemented in everyday life.
they can do this sort of stuff they just have to put in the time and the effort and thats
what everything takes and you can see that there is not only Phd's and undergraduates
and graduates students working with them and they can be there a matter of 5-6 years so
these coal county students are learning about alternative renewable energy sources at the
big city University.
I'm really glad and thankful for you reaching out to us, and where I live we dont have such
a big city environment where we live and its a very nice campus, very nice housing, everyone
here has been very wonderful to us, thank you very much.
Wow, talk about impressive, these are high school kids, juniors and seniors in high school,
from 7 of the promozione counties in the eastern Kentucky mostly poor counties, really bright
kids that wanna learn about research and how to do research and impacting the future, we
have about a minute left, what else you got?
Dale Billingsley is the brand new provost, acting provost at the University of Louisville.
he has been at UofL 38 years, he was getting ready to retire, wait not so fast, do we all
have to salute him, no you don't you just call him Dr.B because that is what all the
students call him.
He is the new acting provost at the University of Louisville and I need to brag on our Law
Students a little bit, at the ABA conference, American Bar Association Conference they won
2 awards, the public service award and the ABA involvement award went to the UofL Law
School because kids are involved out in the community, in fact they did some community
service just this past week and also the KBA, the Kentucky Bar Association has a writing
competition for the students at UK, Nothern Kentucky and UofL Law schools we took the
gold, the silver and the bronze.
Way to go, way to go law school students UofL will that be on the front page of a cereal
box?
back to the ABA Rachel was thrilled that they ruled out calling other attorneys Honey or
Darling, do what?
They did that, it happened last week at the ABA, we don't do that, we will not do that
at the University of Louisville Law School.
we will talk about that at another time.
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