Windy

Windy Hi, I'm Windy. I like patterns – there are patterns of the wind, the seasons, and energy, too. Native American clothes, pottery, and music show me patterns in things that I use every day.

I like finding patterns and hidden images in pictures and nature. I like the patterns that go with math and science. They make reasoning fluid since I can remember how systems of patterns hook together. When I grow up, I want to be a scientist who discovers alternative energy resources from the patterns in energy and energy conservation.

Energy is a unifying concept is an important idea. Let’s try to learn this style by looking at a basic energy pattern. Then we can move on to more and more highly developed relationships between every aspect of what we do with our lives, when viewed from the perspective of energy.

OK, now let’s try “pattern-learning”. Sitting quietly, stare at this pattern. Move your eyes around slowly, covering every speck of the image, reading every word, looking at every line and what is at the end of each line. Move the image of the pattern further away, and examine it again. Do this from every perspective, from the left holding it to the left, then from the right holding it to the right, all the while thinking about the kinds and qualities of relationships between the topics in the pattern.

If there’s one thought to leave you with, it is to remember the pattern that goes with using electricity. So please, “Turn out the lights, turn out the lights.”

Can you help me find more “pattern-learning” that interest you so I can add them to my Pattern-learning list?

DOE Laboratories, Educational Programs: Minority Outreach Initiatives for Windy

Age Grade: Middle School

Expanding Your Horizons Conference
Young Women - 6th through 8th grades.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Colorado +

Expanding Your Horizons Consortium
Young Women - 6th through 12th grades.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area

Dream Catcher Science Program
Native American Indian.
Sandia National Laboratories -- NM
Geographic Limits: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Manos Hands-on Science and Engineering Program
Hispanic middle school students
Sandia National Laboratories -- NM
Geographic Limits: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Age Grade: High School

Expanding Your Horizons Consortium
Young Women - 6th through 12th grades.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area

Minority High School Apprenticeship Program (MHSAP)
Research Apprenticeships to 9th/10th grade students: African Ancestored, Hispanic/Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Suffolk County and Inner City Outreach Schools, NY

Affirmative Action & Diversity Program
Coordination with Professional organizations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area

DOE Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection (REEP) Summer Academy
Minority and inner city youth
Geographic Limits: Texas, Louisiana, and Colorado

Colorado Mathematics, Engineering and Scientific Achievement (MESA)
Economically disadvantaged ethnic minority and women
Geographic Limits: Colorado

Student Research Apprenticeship Program (SRAP)
Ethnic groups under-represented in science and engineering (Hispanic, African American and Native American)
Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Geographic Limits: Richland, Washington

Young Women in Science Program
Young Women - 11th Grade High School Students
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Richland, Washington

Hands-On Minds-On Technologies (HmTech Science Program)
African American Students - 6th through 12th grades.
Sandia National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Sandia National Laboratory

Age Grade: Undergraduate

Native American Faculty and Student Internship Program
Native American Undergraduates
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Geographic Limits: From tribes currently engaged in one of the Department of Energy's programs

Date last updated: Jan. 2, 2005