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Fran Barhydt Energy Scientist: Andy Shapiro Energy Educator, Chittenden County: Eveline Killian Energy Educator, Central Vermont: Erin Brannen |
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Fran Barhydt has been teaching science to students of all ages for 40
years. She began by teaching elementary school and now teaches the teachers
of elementary, middle, and high school. Her distinguished career includes
recognition from the National Science Teachers Association as an outstanding
educator and from the University of Delaware's College of Education as
alumna of the year. She has also worked with the American Chemical Society
on its science teaching board, with Walt Disney pictures as the "star"
of an educational film, and as an author for Prentice Hall textbooks.
She has served as a consultant with school districts in Delaware, Vermont,
and New Hampshire, has taught science methods to school teachers and served
on the peer review board in Vermont. She has been VEEP's director since
1989 and in that role writes grant proposals, gives presentations in schools,
and conducts training workshops for teachers.
162 Chocolate Moose Lane
Lyndonville, VT 05851
Email: veep@kingcon.net
For school presentations in Chittenden County please contact Eveline for more information.
Email: ejkillian@msn.com
With a B.A. in engineering from Brown University, Andy Shapiro, through his company Energy Balance, Inc, has been providing energy consulting and design services to a wide variety of clients since 1988. He works with homeowners, architects, engineers and builders, as well as towns, landlords, non-profit housing organizations, and electric utilities. Services range from house-doctoring to sustainable building design and include research projects as well as utility program design and impact evaluation. He is the author of The Homeowners Complete Guide to Add-On Solar Greenhouses and Sunspaces (Rodale Press, 1985). He became VEEP's energy scientist in 1994. Shapiro provides a level of technical expertise unusual in classrooms and along with Barhydt is helping to enhance science teaching in New England schools.
45 Perkins Road
Montpelier, VT 05602
Email: ashapiro@together.net
Erin Brannen has been working in the field of alternative, environmental and socially conscious education since 1997. She is dedicated to learning and sharing skills which incorporate ideas of sustainable living practices. Erin began working with the Vermont Energy Education Program in November of 2001. Working with VEEP is meaningful to her because it allows students to gain an unbiased perspective on different types of energy production using a hands-on, minds-on methodology which makes learning interesting and fun. In addition to her work with energy education, Erin has worked growing organic food and with programs to educate about food and farming. She has recently been learning and teaching about building structures from earth-based materials. Erin uses all that she has learned to work toward a lifestyle that significantly reduces her negative impact on the earth.
Email: ravenswingcamp@lycos.com