K-12 Outreach

SUCCEED

Every summer, the Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making hosts SUCCEED. SUCCEED is a co-educational program targeting rising sophomores and juniors considering careers in STEM fields and teaches them about energy, the environment and climate change.

For the six summers I was at Carnegie Mellon, I taught or co-taught lessons on the Energy-Water Nexus, Ocean Acidification, Life-Cycle Assessment, and Air and Water Pollution. The Energy-Water Nexus was a particular favorite and it was a capstone lecture that builds off of previous lessons on energy systems, life-cycle assessment, air pollution, and water pollution. For the 2016 iteration, I walked students through the calculations involved in my research performing a life-cycle assessment of flue gas desulfurization wastewater.