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Agriscience

Agriscience prepares students for a wide range of careers in agriculture and animal science. Students learn about soil through hands-on investigations, simulations and data analysis, and from best practices from the agricultural industry to improve soil health in the local environment. Students also learn how to minimize the impact of climate change through carbon sequestration.

Computer Science "The World Becomes What We Code"

Students learn the basics of computer programming using JavaScript, engage with social and environmental justice messages, and how graphics are used to create impactful messages. Students work through a series of design challenges that culminate in a final project where they design a campaign to address an important issue affecting their community.

Clean Energy

The supply of clean water and the efficient use of energy and water are essential to human health and well-being. Student explore the connection between water heating and climate change, design insulation and conduction experiments, build their own solar water heater prototype, identify barriers and solutions to adopting solar water heating, and reflect on career opportunities in the energy, environment, and utilities industries.

Green Engineering (With Micro:bits)

Engineers envision the future and use the engineering-design process to help solve today's problems. Students learn this process, how people and places are affected by climate change, and use engineering-design protocols to solve problems and mitigate the human impact on the environment using micro:bits - a pocket sized computer.

Green Engineering (Without Micro:bits)

The fictitious island of Nomilu'u faces several crises related to the impacts of climate change, such as sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and flooding. Students learn about the work of coastal engineers and use the engineering-design process to solve one of these issues to save population of this island nation.

Industrial Biotechnology

To reduce the impacts of plastic on the environment, we must replace fossil fuel-based plastics with biodegradable and sustainable materials during the product design and manufacturing processes. Students help solve the “plastic problem” by creating durable, biologically-sourced, sustainable materials to replace traditional plastics used in our homes and schools.

Product Innovation and Design

Over millions of years of evolution, nature has found ways to solve problems that are similar to those found in the manufacturing and product design industry sectors. Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges. Student use an online design tool, Tinkercad, to solve a problem using the principles of biomimicry and design thinking.

Instructional Modules in Development (June, 2023)

• Sustainable Food
• Green Transportation
• Green Buildings
• Clean Power
• Robotics
• Clean Water

Environmental �鶹��Ʒ��Ƶ and Pre-Apprenticeship Opportunity

To prepare youth and adults from communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment for environmental jobs and career pathways and to become activists and leaders who can address environmental challenges and injustices in their communities and society more broadly.

Roots of Success is a multimedia, activity-based curriculum that is facilitated by an instructor and taught in a classroom setting. The curriculum consists of 10 modules and can be taught as a stand alone course or integrated into an existing course. After teaching the Fundamentals module, instructors can teach as many or as few modules as they choose. Students who take all 10 modules are automatically enrolled in the ROS Department of Labor Pre-Apprenticeship.