Teaching STEM for Social Impact

Erik Helgren and Karina Garbesi share about teaching STEM for social impact on episode 246 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Everybody has this hidden desire to want to do something meaningful in the world.
—Karina Garbesi

People want to help you when you’re doing something for somebody else.
—Karina Garbesi

Follow your passions.
—Erik Helgren

Resources Mentioned

• We Care Solar
• Derek Bruff on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 71
• A Time for Telling, by Daniel L. Schwartz and John D. Bransford
• Energy Sticks
• YouTube video on the Social Impact Solar Program’s Hoopa Native American Solar Suitcase Workshop, Summer 2018
• YouTube video interviewing Helgren and Garbesi after the first pilot year in 2015-16
• The True Cost
• We Share Solar Program 
• Transformative sustainability learning: a united pedagogy of head, hands and heart
• Sunrise Movement

Articles on the Social Impact Solar Program:

• Dossetti, Krista, Light After Dark, East Bay Today, Article, September 1, 2016.
• Bloom, Jonathan, Hayward students ‘invention’ will help power schools in Africa, ABC 7 news article and video: February 10, 2017.
• Fuelner, Natalie, Rising in the East, East Bay Today, Article, pg. 28 – 33, Fall 2016.
• Moriki, Darin, Hayward: Lighting up the night one solar suitcase at a time, Mercury News, Feb 24, 2017.
• Fuelner, Natalie, Solar Warriors: Cal State East Bay Solar Suitcase Program partners with Native American tribes, organizations nationwide, East Bay Today.