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New Bioprospecting Activity: Students Can Collect and Share Data with GLBRC...

(Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center)  Bioprospecting for Cellulose-Degrading Microbes: Filter Paper Assay Method Students collect samples that they predict will contain communities of...

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Catalan Schools Collect Used Oil to Produce Biodiesel

(LaVanguardia.com)  The project was born in the Bages and extends to eight counties more | It aims to raise awareness of the importance of recycling About 25,000 students from schools from nine...

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Pitt County Features Biodiesel 4 Schools Program in New Video

(Pitt County Government)  Since 2012, Pitt County Schools has partnered with Green Circle North Carolina to turn used cooking oil into cash for schools, and that partnership is paying dividends.  This...

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Hanes Grows Biofuels: Students Focus on Environmental Sustainability

(Biofuels Center of North Carolina)  Under the direction of the Biofuels Center, Hanes Middle School students in Winston-Salem, N.C., plant Switchgrass seedlings at the school’s newly established...

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Minnesota Biodiesel Essay Contest Open to High School Seniors

by Ron Kotrba (Biodiesel Magazine)  October is “Biofuels Month” in Minnesota as proclaimed by Gov. Mark Dayton, and with the state preparing for its move to B10 next year, high school seniors have an...

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Clean Air & Biodiesel 5th & 6th Grade Lesson & Poster Contest

(American Lung Association of the Midwest)  Did you know that vehicle emissions are the largest source of air pollution in Minnesota? Luckily, cleaner transportation options and use of cleaner fuels...

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NAA’s Camp Algae Update

(Algae Industry Magazine)  he National Algae Association (NAA) has released an update on their recently announced incubator program in North Texas. “Camp Algae” is a 17-acre algae farm located 30 miles...

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Bioenergy Research Tour Rolled 900 Miles through Southeast

(University of Tennessee)  “Green diesel” is on the move, and a recent demonstration tour showed Southeastern audiences just how far the biobased fuel can go. Coordinated by the Southeast Partnership...

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Go Clean, Go Green, Go Algae

by Amelia Fox and Emily Thiel (Daniel Boone Student Reporter/Berks-Mont News)  In this oil-dependent world, a group of students at Daniel Boone High school are looking at alternatives that “Go Clean,...

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Koehlmoos Reaps Awards from Cellulosic Ethanol Research

by Jean Caspers-Simmet (AgriNews.com)  Eric Koehlmoos’ research on cellulosic ethanol led to national champion honors at the National FFA Science Fair last month in Louisville. The 17-year-old junior...

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High School and College Students See Algae Biomanufacturing In Their Future

by Barry Cohen (National Algae Association)  When the National Algae Association opened its test center for algae production technologies and methods to high school and college students, many...

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Ohio Soybean Council Launches Education Website to Provide Resources,...

(Ohio’s Country Journal)  Ohio soybean farmers understand that today’s youth is the future of the soybean industry and all of agriculture. For this reason, the Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) and soybean...

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EPA Seeks Environmental Education Grant Applications

(Environmental Protection Agency) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently accepting applications for environmental education projects under the agency’s Environmental Education...

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Students See Algae Biomanufacturing In Their Future

(National Algae Association)  When the National Algae Association opened its test center for algae production technologies and methods to high school and college students, many interesting things...

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Willow Power: Hughesville School Harvests 1st Biomass Crop

by Samantha Wallace (Williamsport Sun-Gazette)    … The Northeast Woody/Warm Season Bioenergy Consortium, or NEW Bio, a regional network of universities, businesses and governments, dedicated to...

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Origin Oil Algae Harvester at National Algae Association’s Center for Live...

(National Algae Association)  NAA announces the Origin Oil Algae Harvester will be demonstrated on Friday’s during the month of March and April for students, algaepreneurs, private industry and...

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“Local High School’s Award-Winning Algae-to-Biofuel Research” March 25, 2014...

Student presentation of Algae Bioreactor Biofuels Research and facility,  Daniel High School “Green Team,” Birdsboro, PA On Feb 20, 2014 the Green Team at Daniel Boone High School in Birdsboro, PA,...

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Woodbine Students Learn about Algae Growth at Laboratory

by Richard Degener (Press of Atlantic City)  Pond scum could be in the future for eighth-grader Dylan Cruz. Cruz was one of 17 Woodbine Elementary School students who toured the Garden State...

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Puckett Attendance Center Will Produce Biodiesel in the Classroom with...

(Florida Biodiesel, Inc./PR.com)  Puckett Attendance Center has chosen the B-60 Biodiesel processor as their hands-on educational tool to demonstrate to students how to produce renewable energy. “The...

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Teachers’ Perspective – Green Team Algae Project

by Pamela Rockwell* (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Sid Harwood and Shannon Helzer both have a military background, both are physics teachers at Daniel Boone High School in Birdsboro, PA, and both are...

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