Chevron and Fab Foundation Announce Global STEM Educator Fellowship
16 Fevereiro 2023 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) and the Fab Foundation today
announced the first recipients of an all-new fellowship program
that supports STEM educators across the world. The Chevron Fab STEM
Fellowship was awarded to Nathan Pritchett of Tulsa, Oklahoma and
to Pieter Verduijn of Calabas, Aruba. The Chevron Fab STEM
Fellowship is a one-year discovery program for outstanding
educators to learn about, create and promote innovative and
inclusive programs that teach STEM using digital fabrication and
engage new and underrepresented student populations in STEM
education and careers.
The program is inspired by Chevron's social investment strategy
and the global Fab Lab network, both of which foster innovation,
learning and invention. Fab Labs, with their suite of digital
fabrication tools and prototyping machines — including laser
cutters, 3D printers, vinyl cutters and milling machines — are
inspiring young people across the world to learn about science,
technology, engineering and math (STEM). These are safe and
accessible places to play, create, learn, mentor and invent.
The Fellowship awards a stipend of $10,000 to each selected
educator to use toward creating and disseminating new, inclusive
practices around STEM education. The fellows will visit a few Fab
Labs of their choice, anywhere in the world, to learn, to reflect,
to co-create new curriculum and disseminate new practices. Their
work will be published in podcasts, online blogs and through
engagements at conferences and educational events over the coming
year.
Fellow Nathan Pritchett is the executive director of Fab
Lab Tulsa, a non-profit makerspace located in the Kendall-Whittier
neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma that provides community, education,
workforce and business programming that teaches innovation,
design-thinking, problem-solving and change-making, together with
open and equitable access to 21st century advanced manufacturing
and digital fabrication tools, equipment and technology. Pritchett
is a technologist and futurist, guiding the organization’s vision
of maker culture, as well as targeted outreach programs that
empower current and future makers. Pritchett won based on his Green
Power Racing education project with middle school students in
Tulsa.
Fellow Pieter Verduijn was born in the Netherlands and
lives and works in Aruba. He is a multilingual educator with 18
years of experience in the Dutch, Aruban and American education
systems. At the International School of Aruba (ISA), Verduijn is
the STEM teacher and EdTech coordinator. In his role at ISA, he
creates and teaches engaging STEM lessons in an educational
makerspace. In addition to teaching, he works to advance the maker
movement locally and globally by organizing training sessions for
teachers and projects for youth. Having children fabricate their
imagination is key to his teaching philosophy. Verduijn won based
on his Art Toys project, which students design and fabricate their
own toys.
Educators applied from 21 countries, including the Unites
States, Spain, Italy, India, Qatar, Nepal, Mexico, Peru and
Kazakhstan. The panel of judges for the competition included four
experts in digital fabrication, education and STEM outreach: Andrea
Fields, educator and engineer of Cleveland, Ohio; Karen Rawls,
senior social investment advisor of Houston, Texas; Brent
Richardson, artist and educator of Waco, Texas and Corin Slown,
associate professor of science education at California State
University, Monterey Bay of Monterey, California.
“Chevron’s commitment to support professional development for
STEM educators runs deep,” said Jennifer Michael, social investment
manager at Chevron. “Programs such as the Chevron Fab STEM
Fellowship will continue to inspire the next generation of problem
solvers to help meet the world’s future energy needs.”
Chevron has supported Fab Labs and the maker movements in
support of STEM education for more than a decade. The partnership
created a substantial and impactful network of educational fab labs
in communities where it operates by engaging with over 100,000
students and community members across Chevron’s U.S-based
operations.
“The Chevron Fab STEM Fellowship will serve as a platform to
unite community stakeholders to take bold action towards breaking
down long-standing barriers for student success in the STEM fields
and ensure 21st century career readiness and global
competitiveness,” said Sherry Lassiter, president and chief
executive officer of Fab Labs. “We are excited to grow our STEM
educational partnership and impact across the world. The Chevron
Fab STEM Fellowship will deepen a network of science and technology
experts committed to advancing innovation and collaboration to
learn about successful, inclusive and accessible STEM teaching
practices that can emulate in Fab labs, classrooms and maker spaces
across the world.”
About Chevron
Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy
companies. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy
is essential to achieving a more prosperous and sustainable world.
Chevron produces crude oil and natural gas; manufactures
transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and additives; and
develops technologies that enhance our business and the industry.
We are focused on lowering the carbon intensity in our operations
and growing lower carbon businesses along with our traditional
business lines. More information about Chevron is available at
www.chevron.com.
About Fab Foundation
The Fab Foundation is a U.S. non-profit 501(c) 3 organization
that emerged from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. Our mission is
to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial
means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital
fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything, and thereby
creating opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods around the
world. The foundation partners with mission-aligned organizations,
consultants and Fab Lab technical mentors to serve a global
community of makers and change agents. More information about the
Fab Foundation is available at http://www.fabfoundation.org/
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