[CSENews] Fwd: CSE Team wins 2013 Ford College Community Challenge Grant

[Teresa Isela VanderSloot]

CSE Senior Kaitlin Davis and Professors Laura Dillon and Charles Owen
have been awarded a 2013 Ford College Community Challenge Grant. Their
project "Technology for Social Good" is just one of nine in the country
to be awarded under the Ford 3C Program, which supports projects that
incorporate community work into schools’ curriculum, giving students
real-world experience while also producing benefits to the community.
The MSU team will develop and pilot a curriculum introducing high school
students to programming through creating a smartphone app that allows
them to monitor and learn about energy consumption and conservation. The
pilot is planned for this spring at Eastern High School in Lansing with
participation also from the Ingham School District's Computer Science
Academy.

The project is described in the Port Huron Times Herald:
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20130909/NEWS01/309090013/PHHS-grad-gets-25-000-share-her-passions