FEBRUARY 08, 2024. 3:15 - 5:15PM

DESIGNING AN ELECTRICITY GRID

Where: Branham High School

Teacher: Tasnima Naoshin, Master’s student in Civil Engineering at Stanford University

Have you ever wondered where the electricity in your home comes from? Is it generated from renewable energy sources, like solar or wind, or fossil fuels? Chances are, it's a mix of both! In this workshop, we'll go over the inner workings of the electric power system – one of the backbones of modern-day society – and learn how to design our own electricity grid.

JANUARY 18, 2024. 3:15 - 5:15PM

DIRECT AIR CAPTURE: A TECHNOLOGY TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

Where: Branham High School

Teacher: Shradha Sapru, PhD Candidate in Chemistry at Stanford University

Temperatures have been rising rapidly globally, resulting in extreme weather events and climate change. This increase in temperature is related to the increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Mitigating climate change necessitates the removal of excess CO2 from the air. In this workshop, we will learn about one of the emerging technologies in the climate space - direct air capture (DAC). We will see where this technology is at today and, through a live demonstration, we'll understand how this process works. After the workshop, Shradha will share her personal journey in science and her advice for high school students interested in STEM and fighting climate change.

May 20, 2023. 8:00AM - 3:00pm

Branham Highschool Workshop 6: Energy Research at Stanford University

Teachers: The POWER Team, Ava Acevedo, Tracy Schloemer

To finish up the Branham high school workshop series, we invite the students to visit the Energy laboratories at Stanford. The visit includes workshops on sorting waste and making fruit solar cells, tours of the energy research laboratories on the Stanford campus.

April 20, 3:15pm

Branham Highschool Workshop 5: Electric Vehicles: the Cars of the Future

Teacher: Sonia Martin

Ever wondered if electric vehicles are really “zero emission” as advertised? How much do they cost? How big are their batteries? In this workshop you'll design your own electric vehicle and learn where the electricity to charge cars comes from!

March 30, 3:15pm

Branham Highschool Workshop 4: Heat Radiation: How we stay Warm and Cool

Teacher: Jiawei Zhou

Heat is everywhere, and is a major energy need for humans. Despite its importance, capturing and making use of heat is far from being trivial, especially for one kind of heat – which propagates as invisible beams – the heat radiation. While our planet has been exchanging energy with the universe through this route for a long time, only recently have we advanced our technologies to harvest this energy. We will see how material innovations allow us to engineer heat radiation as we want, and create lots of benefits – save energy, stay comfortable, and fight climate crisis.

December 7, 3:15pm

Branham Highschool Workshop 3: The Science of Climate Change

Teacher: Evan Carlson

Have you ever wondered how CO2 warms the Earth? About what kinds of climate and weather events to expect in a warming world? Join us in this workshop to learn first-hand how CO2 traps heat and how this impacts the planet we live on. Through live demonstrations and discussion, we’ll explore the science of climate change.

November 3, 3:15pm

Branham Highschool Workshop 2: Water Electrolysis: Fueling the Hydrogen Economy

Teacher: Rachel Spurlock, Ryan Hannagan, and Johanna Schroeder.

Following up on the concepts we learnt about batteries, we will talk about using electricity to convert water into hydrogen gas, an important chemical that can be used as fuel for future transportation or for the chemical industry. Our students will build our own battery-driven electrolyzer and learn more about the concept of the hydrogen economy.

October 6, 3:15pm

Branham Highschool Workshop 1: How Batteries Power our World

Teacher: The Power Team

Have you ever wondered what makes electric vehicles go? Curious about the insides of a battery from an actual Tesla Model S? Join us in this workshop as we will explore how batteries are engineered for technologies such as electric vehicles, flashlights, and hearing aids. You’ll get hands-on experience with the components used in real batteries and learn about how they work together to power our world.

May 16

Stanford Splash: How Batteries Power our World: Electric Vehicles, BioMedical Devices, ANd MORE!