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SKY – Skilled Knowledgeable Youth
Below is a link to a YouTube video that gives an accurate description of the prosthetic project that my students worked on in Honduras last year. This is a rough cut from the the last fifteen minutes or so of the documentary that is being made about my students.
http://youtu.be/SE7BDKDtj3g
The SKY program at Calera High School is expansive ranging from the design and fabrication of custom utility vehicles for the third world to making prosthetic limbs for the poor and needy. Below is a description of several of the projects that we are involved with here at Calera High School.
“Children Changing the World" I took ten high school students into real world of construction and mechanical skills. The students have constructed Basic Utility Vehicles (BUV), designed for use in third world countries. This unique vehicle design includes a frame made of threaded water pipe, which is easily fabricates and repaired with small hand-tools and because of its simplicity, replaceable parts always available. These student designed vehicles, which competed with nationwide engineering colleges and universities in Indiana. Calera placed first, besting collegiate engineering students such as Purdue University each of the five years of competition. We shipped BUV kit to Honduras, which included the fabricated frame made of threaded water pipe, a motor, transmission and front suspension. The Calera team has constructed several vehicles for multi-purposes – truck, school bus, ambulance, tillage, and water well drilling. Two of the vehicles are being used by nationals in Honduras. The students are fitting a previously built utility vehicle with a 33 horsepower engine so it can be used as a school bus in Honduras to be shipped the summer of 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNBVkokbMmk.
The students also invented an inexpensive prosthetic leg using Toyota Corolla motor mounts for both the knee and ankle joints. This past summer my students fit fourteen amputees in the Cloud Forest of Honduras prosthetic legs that were created in my classroom. The students just completed the design and fabrication of a polycentric knee. SKY has patent pending on the leg knee and ankle design
The students are currently designing and building a hydro-electric power plant to send to Honduras. The power plat will be installed on a floating platform (pontoon boat) and will be anchored in a river. The students have constructed a six foot diameter paddle wheel on top of the pontoon boat, the bottom section of the wheel will be lowered into the river. As the river current flows beneath the boat, this will cause the wheel to turn thus powering a generator. This power plant will supply reliable electricity to several of the mud huts along the riverbank.
The students will also be shipping school supplies to add two classrooms onto the existing school. This will allow both middle and high school classes to be offered in this community.
These incredible stories have been filmed in a documentary by Magnolialnd Entertainment and are in the process of editing a documentary entitled "Children Changing the World". There will be a sequel to the documentary which will be filmed during the 2014 trip to Honduras.
Students have constructed a play house which and donated to a local battered woman’s shelter, Safe House. http://www.alabamas13.com/video?clip...autostart=true
The students completed a tandem bicycle to be shared with other schools in Shelby County with the plan to build more. The bike is designed to allow the special needs teacher to pedal and steer one bike while the special needs student is able to ride the other bike (usually this is the first time these students have ever ridden a bicycle).
The students and I have applied for and received two grants Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Council to purchase Electric Vehicle (EV) kits. These cars are designed to compete in a national electric car completion through Electrathon America. The funding for the grant allowed us to purchase seven cars, which we have given to seven different schools in central Alabama. It was exciting to watch these teams construct and compete in an alternative fuel endurance race on the Barber’s racetrack. The 2013 race included 14 cars. I have just applied for a $200,000 grant through Toyota that will put 67 Electrathons car kits in 67 different schools throughout Alabama (one in every county). I believe that it is invaluable to train the students today for the jobs of tomorrow.
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation has designated the Calera High School’s STEM program as one of 15 nationwide schools as a PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education), the only school in Alabama, to receive this honor. The $35,000 grant is used for equipment and materials to enhance the Calera program and to fund a discovery summer program for Calera Middle School students. Recently SME Education Foundation and PBS filmed the Calera program to be used as a promotional piece for the Education foundation and to be aired on PBS stations.
Calera High School is one of 10 schools in Alabama and was named a Banner School, by the Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools (CLAS). The award recognizes schools or programs that serve as outstanding educational models for other schools in Alabama. The award was granted by the work of engineering program. The Calera High School STEM program has been supported by over 200 business partners. Nearly all equipment, supplies, and materials have been donated. Without these business partners these projects would not be possible.
My advisory committee has formed a 501 c3 called Sky – Skilled Knowledgeable Youth. SKY exposes youth to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) projects that will enhance their abilities through challenging projects that interest them in engineering and skilled trade jobs. These activities may be conducted in-school, after school and/or on weekend classes. The participants will be middle and/or high school students developing hands-on skills in a variety of activities that simulate industry practices to include academic skills and job readiness/employability skills when the projects(s) are completed.
Brain Copes, engineering STEM teacher at Calera High School, I have received many alkaloids and honors for the success of this program. These include:
· People Magazine Teacher of the Year
· Calera High School Teacher of the Year
· Finalist Jacksonville State Teacher Hall of Fame
· 2003 Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award
· American Welding Society (AWS) Performance Award
· Birmingham Chapter of AWS Award
· AWS Director Certificate Award
· Honorary Lieutenant from Lt. Gov. Folsum
· Honorary Lieutenant from Lt. Gov. Ivey
· Certificate of Appreciation, Mayor of Jutipa Honduras
· Indianapolis Power and Light Golden Apple Award
· The United States Gold Congressional Award for volunteer services
I also received a gold congressional award in the early 1990's for personal development and volunteerism.
Dr. Tommy Bice, Alabama State Superintendent of Education, stated, “Take one mission-focused technology education teacher, a group of exceptional young men and women, a need and a desire to meet the need, and what do you have? Calera High School This is what I experienced during a visit to Calera High School. As I sat and listened to these young men and women explain their planning and construction processes, I had to continually remind myself I was listening to high schoolers.”
I would like to thank you for supporting the SKY program at Calera High School.
Below you a link for the online vision of the Delta SKY Magazine. You will find a brief mention of Calera High Schools Engineering program on page fourteen.
http://deltaskymag.delta.com/Sky-Ext...-Profiles.aspx
Brian Copes
STEM Instructor
Calera High School
100 Calera Eagle Drive
Calera, Alabama 35040
(205) 267-7038 cell
ALABAMA TEACHER SELECTED “PEOPLE MAGAZINE TEACHER OF THE YEAR”
Montgomery, Ala. – Brian Copes, a dynamic Career and Technical Education teacher at Calera High school (Shelby County), has been selected as a 2012 People Magazine Teacher of the Year. This prestigious award honors five top national educators each year. Award recipients are selected by nominations from People Magazine readers, editors, and a national advisory board.
Copes is a pre-engineering teacher and teaches classes in the areas of Research and Design, and also Engineering Applications. Last summer, Copes and ten of his students, took a special trip to Honduras where they fitted 14 amputees with artificial legs which they designed from automotive parts from old Toyota Corollas. His students also assembled basic utility vehicles to provide ambulance services to remote locations in Honduras. Copes' goal each day is to inspire his students to achieve personal excellence – to make a positive difference in their community.
State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice said the level of education and training that Copes imparts upon his students is truly transformational. “The work that Mr. Copes and his students are performing is the essence of useful, relevant training that not only educates students and prepares them for a bright and successful future, but it also helps others, right now, in a way that is meaningful and practical,” Bice said. “We are incredibly proud of Mr. Copes and the recognition he has received from People magazine. More importantly, we are proud of the example of exemplary teaching he is demonstrating every day with Alabama students.”
SKY – Skilled Knowledgeable Youth
Below is a link to a YouTube video that gives an accurate description of the prosthetic project that my students worked on in Honduras last year. This is a rough cut from the the last fifteen minutes or so of the documentary that is being made about my students.
http://youtu.be/SE7BDKDtj3g
The SKY program at Calera High School is expansive ranging from the design and fabrication of custom utility vehicles for the third world to making prosthetic limbs for the poor and needy. Below is a description of several of the projects that we are involved with here at Calera High School.
“Children Changing the World" I took ten high school students into real world of construction and mechanical skills. The students have constructed Basic Utility Vehicles (BUV), designed for use in third world countries. This unique vehicle design includes a frame made of threaded water pipe, which is easily fabricates and repaired with small hand-tools and because of its simplicity, replaceable parts always available. These student designed vehicles, which competed with nationwide engineering colleges and universities in Indiana. Calera placed first, besting collegiate engineering students such as Purdue University each of the five years of competition. We shipped BUV kit to Honduras, which included the fabricated frame made of threaded water pipe, a motor, transmission and front suspension. The Calera team has constructed several vehicles for multi-purposes – truck, school bus, ambulance, tillage, and water well drilling. Two of the vehicles are being used by nationals in Honduras. The students are fitting a previously built utility vehicle with a 33 horsepower engine so it can be used as a school bus in Honduras to be shipped the summer of 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNBVkokbMmk.
The students also invented an inexpensive prosthetic leg using Toyota Corolla motor mounts for both the knee and ankle joints. This past summer my students fit fourteen amputees in the Cloud Forest of Honduras prosthetic legs that were created in my classroom. The students just completed the design and fabrication of a polycentric knee. SKY has patent pending on the leg knee and ankle design
The students are currently designing and building a hydro-electric power plant to send to Honduras. The power plat will be installed on a floating platform (pontoon boat) and will be anchored in a river. The students have constructed a six foot diameter paddle wheel on top of the pontoon boat, the bottom section of the wheel will be lowered into the river. As the river current flows beneath the boat, this will cause the wheel to turn thus powering a generator. This power plant will supply reliable electricity to several of the mud huts along the riverbank.
The students will also be shipping school supplies to add two classrooms onto the existing school. This will allow both middle and high school classes to be offered in this community.
These incredible stories have been filmed in a documentary by Magnolialnd Entertainment and are in the process of editing a documentary entitled "Children Changing the World". There will be a sequel to the documentary which will be filmed during the 2014 trip to Honduras.
Students have constructed a play house which and donated to a local battered woman’s shelter, Safe House. http://www.alabamas13.com/video?clip...autostart=true
The students completed a tandem bicycle to be shared with other schools in Shelby County with the plan to build more. The bike is designed to allow the special needs teacher to pedal and steer one bike while the special needs student is able to ride the other bike (usually this is the first time these students have ever ridden a bicycle).
The students and I have applied for and received two grants Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Council to purchase Electric Vehicle (EV) kits. These cars are designed to compete in a national electric car completion through Electrathon America. The funding for the grant allowed us to purchase seven cars, which we have given to seven different schools in central Alabama. It was exciting to watch these teams construct and compete in an alternative fuel endurance race on the Barber’s racetrack. The 2013 race included 14 cars. I have just applied for a $200,000 grant through Toyota that will put 67 Electrathons car kits in 67 different schools throughout Alabama (one in every county). I believe that it is invaluable to train the students today for the jobs of tomorrow.
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation has designated the Calera High School’s STEM program as one of 15 nationwide schools as a PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education), the only school in Alabama, to receive this honor. The $35,000 grant is used for equipment and materials to enhance the Calera program and to fund a discovery summer program for Calera Middle School students. Recently SME Education Foundation and PBS filmed the Calera program to be used as a promotional piece for the Education foundation and to be aired on PBS stations.
Calera High School is one of 10 schools in Alabama and was named a Banner School, by the Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools (CLAS). The award recognizes schools or programs that serve as outstanding educational models for other schools in Alabama. The award was granted by the work of engineering program. The Calera High School STEM program has been supported by over 200 business partners. Nearly all equipment, supplies, and materials have been donated. Without these business partners these projects would not be possible.
My advisory committee has formed a 501 c3 called Sky – Skilled Knowledgeable Youth. SKY exposes youth to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) projects that will enhance their abilities through challenging projects that interest them in engineering and skilled trade jobs. These activities may be conducted in-school, after school and/or on weekend classes. The participants will be middle and/or high school students developing hands-on skills in a variety of activities that simulate industry practices to include academic skills and job readiness/employability skills when the projects(s) are completed.
Brain Copes, engineering STEM teacher at Calera High School, I have received many alkaloids and honors for the success of this program. These include:
· People Magazine Teacher of the Year
· Calera High School Teacher of the Year
· Finalist Jacksonville State Teacher Hall of Fame
· 2003 Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award
· American Welding Society (AWS) Performance Award
· Birmingham Chapter of AWS Award
· AWS Director Certificate Award
· Honorary Lieutenant from Lt. Gov. Folsum
· Honorary Lieutenant from Lt. Gov. Ivey
· Certificate of Appreciation, Mayor of Jutipa Honduras
· Indianapolis Power and Light Golden Apple Award
· The United States Gold Congressional Award for volunteer services
I also received a gold congressional award in the early 1990's for personal development and volunteerism.
Dr. Tommy Bice, Alabama State Superintendent of Education, stated, “Take one mission-focused technology education teacher, a group of exceptional young men and women, a need and a desire to meet the need, and what do you have? Calera High School This is what I experienced during a visit to Calera High School. As I sat and listened to these young men and women explain their planning and construction processes, I had to continually remind myself I was listening to high schoolers.”
I would like to thank you for supporting the SKY program at Calera High School.
Below you a link for the online vision of the Delta SKY Magazine. You will find a brief mention of Calera High Schools Engineering program on page fourteen.
http://deltaskymag.delta.com/Sky-Ext...-Profiles.aspx
Brian Copes
STEM Instructor
Calera High School
100 Calera Eagle Drive
Calera, Alabama 35040
(205) 267-7038 cell
ALABAMA TEACHER SELECTED “PEOPLE MAGAZINE TEACHER OF THE YEAR”
Montgomery, Ala. – Brian Copes, a dynamic Career and Technical Education teacher at Calera High school (Shelby County), has been selected as a 2012 People Magazine Teacher of the Year. This prestigious award honors five top national educators each year. Award recipients are selected by nominations from People Magazine readers, editors, and a national advisory board.
Copes is a pre-engineering teacher and teaches classes in the areas of Research and Design, and also Engineering Applications. Last summer, Copes and ten of his students, took a special trip to Honduras where they fitted 14 amputees with artificial legs which they designed from automotive parts from old Toyota Corollas. His students also assembled basic utility vehicles to provide ambulance services to remote locations in Honduras. Copes' goal each day is to inspire his students to achieve personal excellence – to make a positive difference in their community.
State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice said the level of education and training that Copes imparts upon his students is truly transformational. “The work that Mr. Copes and his students are performing is the essence of useful, relevant training that not only educates students and prepares them for a bright and successful future, but it also helps others, right now, in a way that is meaningful and practical,” Bice said. “We are incredibly proud of Mr. Copes and the recognition he has received from People magazine. More importantly, we are proud of the example of exemplary teaching he is demonstrating every day with Alabama students.”