Issue:
Encourage children to pursue careers in science
Design Approach:
Use food science as an entry point to engage kids with science through cooking
Background:
Cooking can serve as a vehicle for teaching biology, chemistry, and physics. By introducing children to these “Hard” sciences through though food they can achieve understanding and appreciation through their useful application.
Experts:
Dr. Jo Ellen Roseman: director for Project 2061, an initiative by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy. She is responsible for overseeing all of the project's programs and activities in the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and research.
Professors Sharmistha Basu Dutt, associate professor of chemistry and director of Engineering Studies, and Gail Marshall, University of West Georgia assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, are coordinators of the grant program. IMPACT: Improving Motivation, Performance, and Attitudes of Children and Teachers makes science and math fun.
Issue:
Childhood nutrition and obesity
Design Approach:
Education in Food Science & cooking
Background:
Experts:
Jamie Oliver – celebrity chef from the UK that has created a television cooking series focused on reforming the food provided by British schools with a focus on nutritious and fresh ingredients. He currently is creating a similar series in the United States.
Nancy Easton started Wellness in the Schools which is a non-profit organization seeking to improve children’s environmental health, nutrition and fitness in NYC public schools. They started a Chef-in-Residence program where volunteer chefs teach kids how to cook health meals with local ingredients.
Tony Geraci is the top chef for Baltimore School system. He replaced existing meal plans which were mostly composed of frozen foods with fresh local ingredients and started a school farm to further promote healthy eating.
Dr. Antonia Demas created a curriculum for teaching children about food nutrition called Food for Life and is the head of the Food Studies Institute.
Issue:
Congestion, air pollution, and carbon emissions from automobile use
Design Approach:
Increase bicycle usage as alternative for cars and mass transportation. (Potential tactic: increasing usage among women or through children by creation of safe paths to school)
Background:
Biking is a common approach for sustainable transportation. Dedicated bike lanes or “Greenways” have been implemented by city planners to encourage this behavior, but still less than 2% of people rely on bicycles for their transportation needs. One approach for increasing the bicyclist population is by focusing on female riders. “In the U.S., men’s cycling trips surpass women’s by at least 2:1.” However in other countries there is parity if not more female bicyclists. Studies have shown women are more risk averse than men. So a greater population of women bikers would indicate a safe infrastructure for biking. Women are less likely to use dedicated bike lanes then men, choosing an longer route that places them on low traffic side streets. ” Other data support those findings. In New York City, men are three times as likely to be cyclists as women. Yet a bicycle count found that an off-street bike path in Central Park had 44 percent female riders.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-more-bicyclists-on-the-road
Experts:
John Pucher, a professor of urban planning at Rutgers University and longtime bike scholar
Janette Sadik-Khan NYC DOT Commissioner
John Burke, President, Trek Bicycles in association with 1 World 2 Wheels
Giana Roberge founded and currently chairs the nationwide Women's Task Force on Cycling. The Task Force is developing programs to promote women's bike racing throughout the United States.
Encourage children to pursue careers in science
Design Approach:
Use food science as an entry point to engage kids with science through cooking
Background:
Cooking can serve as a vehicle for teaching biology, chemistry, and physics. By introducing children to these “Hard” sciences through though food they can achieve understanding and appreciation through their useful application.
Experts:
Dr. Jo Ellen Roseman: director for Project 2061, an initiative by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy. She is responsible for overseeing all of the project's programs and activities in the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and research.
Professors Sharmistha Basu Dutt, associate professor of chemistry and director of Engineering Studies, and Gail Marshall, University of West Georgia assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, are coordinators of the grant program. IMPACT: Improving Motivation, Performance, and Attitudes of Children and Teachers makes science and math fun.
Issue:
Childhood nutrition and obesity
Design Approach:
Education in Food Science & cooking
Background:
Experts:
Jamie Oliver – celebrity chef from the UK that has created a television cooking series focused on reforming the food provided by British schools with a focus on nutritious and fresh ingredients. He currently is creating a similar series in the United States.
Nancy Easton started Wellness in the Schools which is a non-profit organization seeking to improve children’s environmental health, nutrition and fitness in NYC public schools. They started a Chef-in-Residence program where volunteer chefs teach kids how to cook health meals with local ingredients.
Tony Geraci is the top chef for Baltimore School system. He replaced existing meal plans which were mostly composed of frozen foods with fresh local ingredients and started a school farm to further promote healthy eating.
Dr. Antonia Demas created a curriculum for teaching children about food nutrition called Food for Life and is the head of the Food Studies Institute.
Issue:
Congestion, air pollution, and carbon emissions from automobile use
Design Approach:
Increase bicycle usage as alternative for cars and mass transportation. (Potential tactic: increasing usage among women or through children by creation of safe paths to school)
Background:
Biking is a common approach for sustainable transportation. Dedicated bike lanes or “Greenways” have been implemented by city planners to encourage this behavior, but still less than 2% of people rely on bicycles for their transportation needs. One approach for increasing the bicyclist population is by focusing on female riders. “In the U.S., men’s cycling trips surpass women’s by at least 2:1.” However in other countries there is parity if not more female bicyclists. Studies have shown women are more risk averse than men. So a greater population of women bikers would indicate a safe infrastructure for biking. Women are less likely to use dedicated bike lanes then men, choosing an longer route that places them on low traffic side streets. ” Other data support those findings. In New York City, men are three times as likely to be cyclists as women. Yet a bicycle count found that an off-street bike path in Central Park had 44 percent female riders.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-more-bicyclists-on-the-road
Experts:
John Pucher, a professor of urban planning at Rutgers University and longtime bike scholar
Janette Sadik-Khan NYC DOT Commissioner
John Burke, President, Trek Bicycles in association with 1 World 2 Wheels
Giana Roberge founded and currently chairs the nationwide Women's Task Force on Cycling. The Task Force is developing programs to promote women's bike racing throughout the United States.
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