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Petroleum Industry Promoting Education (PIPE)
...a collaborative effort among the petroleum industry societies, corporations and the education community. A sub-committee, whereby societies and corporations pool their efforts and inform the teachers and schools about the resources available within the industry to help with education, in particular, energy education. Resources include the various scholarships and grants offered by organizations, various awards such as those given at GNOSEF, as well as educational materials such as D&D activity books, SPE’s magic suitcase, NOGS fossils and rock collection, etc.
1st Annual STRIKE for S.T.E.M.
A Benefit for Core Element
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
7 to 9:30 PM
at Mid-City Lanes Rock-N-Bowl
www.core4kids.org
FETCH 2010
On Saturday, August 21, 2010, API and SPE coordinated the FETCH Saturday at the Louisiana Children's Museum. This event had 15 exhibits hosted by 9 different societies highlighting science and math principles.. read more
FETCH 2009- At the Louisiana Children's Museum
Once again petroleum industry societies pooled their efforts to educate the community on various aspects of the petroleum industry, its jobs, the importance of the industry and its products in everyday living. (read more)
Click here to view photos from FETCH
teachNOLA
Rebuilding our city by teaching our children…
teachNOLA seeks the nation’s most outstanding certified teachers as well as recent college graduates and mid- and post-career professionals to make a difference by teaching in public schools in New Orleans. This highly-selective initiative recruits the most talented individuals to drive the city’s rebirth by boosting academic achievement for all students. Click here to find out more
2007 BLaST Competition
API, along with other industry societes participating with PIPE, sponsored the 2007 BLaST competition. The event was held at J. D. Meisler school in Metairie. The competition consisted of teamwork presentation, design presentation, research presentation and actual robot challenge. Click here to read more
Click here to view images from the competition
Industry Educational Tools / Scholarships / Grants / Awards
This list is provided to the educators in the surrounding parishes so they can request the educational tools from various organizations and be aware of scholarships, grants, awards and the sponsoring of various educational events.
- American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE) in conjunction with the Offshore Energy Center sponsors the Knowledge Box Education Outreach Exhibit and Program which includes the “Project Expanding Energy Education (PE3) Teacher’s Guide” specifically targeting K-12 grade students with an energy related curriculum. Website: www.aade.org
- American Petroleum Institute (API) National Chapter has created a new resource,
“Classroom Energy”, for educators and students which explore the
topic of energy. By visiting their website: www.classroom-energy.org you can
get background information, classroom activities, interactive tours and links
to a variety of energy education resources.
This organization offers Scholarships, Mini-Grants, and Teacher Awards and helps support the Greater New Orleans Science & Engineering Fair (GNOSEF). It also provides monetary awards to the school, teacher and student for first, second and third placement in the Energy Category of the GNOSEF. Refer to website: api-delta.org/education.asp. - Council of American Petroleum Account ants Societies (COPAS)
has some high level guidance and interpretations for industry accountants
to use to educate themselves at the website: www.copas.org
- It is entitled: “Accredited Petroleum Accountant Program”.
They also have a Training and Reference product listing.
Note: COPAS offers scholarships at website: Copasnola.org/committees_scholarship.php. - Desk and Derrick (D&D) has: “Bit of Fun” Energy Activity Book with characters (PetroMolly & PetroMack) that explain how hydrocarbons and their byproducts are used to make modern products we use every day.
- ADDC authors "Bit of Fun" Energy Activity Book, an activity and coloring book designed to promote education about the Oil & Gas Industry. The book is available in the U.S. Imperial version and the Canadian Metric version. A Spanish version will soon be available.
- ADDC sponsors educational books from the University of Texas at Austin Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX). Website: www.addc.org.
- They also have instructional gimmicks (“Are you as smart as a 3rd,
4th or 5th grader?”) that they take to classrooms.
The ADDC Education Trust Scholarship fund issues full and part-time scholarships. You can retrieve all info from the following website: http://www.addc.org/about-addc/educational-foundations/ - The Desk & Derrick Club of the Westbank offers scholarships at website: www.westbankdandd.org
- Harvey Industrial Canal Association (HCIA) offers scholarships. Refer to website: www.harveycanal.org.
- Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) offers educational awards and grants. Refer to website: www.ipaa.org/education/.
- New Orleans Geological Society (NOGS) Outreach has
a rock, minerals and fossils collection, as well as slide shows and
other presentations, headed by School Outreach Committee Chairperson
Tom Bergeon at Century Exploration who has control over the collection.
Email: tom.bergeon@centuryx.com
This organization offers Scholarships, and helps support the Greater New Orleans Science & Engineering Fair (GNOSEF). It also provides awards for the GNOSEF. - Professional Landmen’s Association of New Orleans (PLANO) has a program called: STAIR (Start the Adventure in Reading) - is a non-profit literacy program to improve reading skills and self-esteem of lower elementary students at website: www.planoweb.org/community-projects.asp
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has a magic suitcase
designed to have a presenter guide the students through demonstrations.
Also, “Learn about Energy” resources at different age levels
(kids, students to age 14, students’ ages 14 and higher); “Games/Just
for Kids” (including coloring pages/books) and interesting articles
(i.e. nuclear energy, alternative energy sources, petroleum careers,
teacher resources, etc.) can be found on the website: www.energy4me.org
Also check out national chapter website at www.spe.org.
This organization offers Scholarships, Mini-Grants and helps support the Greater New Orleans Science & Engineering Fair (GNOSEF). It also provides monetary awards to the school, teacher and student for junior division first, second and third placement in the Energy Category of the GNOSEF. Website: www.spe-delta.org - Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES). The SIPES Foundation, a charitable and educational organization, awards annual earth science scholarships and conducts educational seminars , maintains an extensive earth science video film library, with films of technical programs presented at seminars. Refer to website: www.sipes.org/found.htm.
- Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
offers grants and scholarships.
Refer to website: www.spwla.org. - Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has an “Electronic
Circuits, Switches and Sensors kit (“Versikit VS-1”) that
is both fun and educational at the website: www.geniuselectronics.net.
The kits have been a popular part of the Junior Girl Scout engineering
badge program (the "Making it Matter" badge), the Expanding
Your Horizons program (4th ~ 8th grade) and in the Microsoft DigiGirlz
program for high school age children. Instructor’s Manual and
images are shown.
The SWE offers scholarships at website: www.swe.org. - Southeastern Geophysical Society (SGS) offers scholarships.
Refer to website: www.sgs-neworleans.org/. - Minerals Management Service (MMS) has Kids’ Page with:
- “How Many Does It Take? Energy source types
- “Watts it to you”? Role playing exploring ways to make energy self-sufficient through inquiry, cooperative problems-solving and negotiation.
- “Tidepool Math” Math applications while learning about the environment through, exploration.
- “Ocean Energy” Energy resources located in, over and under the ocean
- “The Ocean’s Sand, A Natural Resource”
- “Learn Along With Energy Ant About Different Types of Energy”
- “Saving Energy at Home”
- “We Put Energy Into Education”. Great information for teachers and kids
- “Historic Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico” and a Teacher’s Resource
- “Did You Know?” Find out what seawater is made of.
- Information on Available Education Material – posters, teacher’s companions, classroom activities and lesson plans.
- The above can be found on website: www.boemre.gov/mmskids/.
The MMS sponsors computers for learning, teaching materials and resources suitable for classroom activity and discussion and Posters and Teacher's Companions. Refer to website: www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/lagniapp/lagniapp.html - TOTAL has put together a very good energy site at the website:
www.planete-energies.com/site/en/homepage.html.
Although the narration is in a “British” form of English
and some of the terminology is different from what we are used to, it
has great animation and is a lot of fun.
PIPE Sponsoring Societies/Companies
2012 calendar of events
announcements
Geo-Science based Monitoring of Flood Protection Levees:
See attached presentation on the Levee failure prevention project. The updated work was presented to Chalmette city commission. Without API Delta support this project would not have taken off the ground as fast. Note the last slide regarding goals for the coming year
API Newsletter
API Delta Chapter
P.O. Box 50110
New Orleans, LA 70150
Serving The Greater New Orleans Oil and Gas Community
Chairman's Message (Dec 2011) NEW
Membership/Sponsorship
Info.
Mini Grant Guidelines/Application
Scholarship Applications
1st Bayou Regional Robotics Competition