{"id":1835,"date":"2016-07-20T12:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1835"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:19","slug":"poweramerica-offers-teachers-hands-on-education-in-power","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/poweramerica-offers-teachers-hands-on-education-in-power\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerAmerica Offers Teachers Hands-On Education in Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PowerAmerica hosted more than 20 high school teachers and community college instructors from across North Carolina for an intensive two-day workshop July 18-19 on applying power electronics concepts in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1842 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4010\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-3-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-3-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-3-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-3-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-3.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The group participated in a variety of hands-on activities designed to increase their understanding of the role of power, and specifically wide bandgap semiconductors. In addition to constructing their own robots and devices powered\u00a0by wide bandgap technology, they visited the various lab projects in the FREEDM Engineering Systems Center at N.C. State, toured the nearby facilities of global power technology company ABB, and took a trip to the N.C. State solar farm.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4010-2.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4010\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The teachers recounted several takeaways from the workshop. Amiee Riley, a teacher at Jack Britt High School in Fayetteville, was surprised to learn that \u201chalf the engineering workforce is set to retire in five years\u2026I also thought it was interesting that the starting salary with a two-year degree in power electronics can be as much as $60,000. Those are some great, different higher education options to share with my students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1841 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6707-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6707\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6707-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6707-2-773x1030.jpg 773w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6707-2-1125x1500.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6707-2-529x705.jpg 529w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6707-2-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_6707-2.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Added Billie Adeimy, an instructor at Richmond Community College in Hamlet, North Carolina: \u201cAs instructors, we sometimes get alienated from the real world in the classroom. So it\u2019s great to attend something like that and receive real world, industry knowledge to take back with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more about PowerAmerica\u2019s Education and Workforce Development initiatives, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/education-and-workforce-development\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/education-and-workforce-development\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1469119434081000&amp;usg=AFQjCNELGhjOehpex-DEG5exJACyWNTSlQ\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowerAmerica hosted more than 20 high school teachers and community college instructors from across North Carolina for an intensive two-day workshop July 18-19 on applying power electronics concepts in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}