kids making sense at agu
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Kids Making Sense
STI-6328
Tim Dye and Alan ChanAGU Fall MeetingDecember 18, 2015
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What Is Kids Making Sense?Kids Making Sense – An educational program to teach youth how to measure pollution using air quality sensors and to interpret the data they collect.
• Training materials– Workbook– Teacher’s guide– Labs and experiments
• Sensors– Particulate matter– Gases (in progress)
• Website: kidsmakingsense.org– Data exploration– Learning more
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What Is Kids Making Sense?
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AirBeam Sensor Known Issues
Light sensitivityDoes not work at high humidity (greater than 90%)Upper detection limit (between 300 and 400 mg/m3)Sensor lifetime and reliability unknownSensor maintenance needs unknown
KMS Pilots/Workshops• Brooklyn, NY• San Francisco, CA• Monterey Park, CA (Los
Angeles)• Taipei, Taiwan• Sacramento, CA• Taipei, Taiwan (Teacher
training)• Taichung, Taiwan• Los Angeles, CA• Imperial Valley, CA
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KMS Sacramento, CALuther Burbank High School• 1-day training• 3-week deployment• Individual student
projects• Program evaluation
Funded by Sacramento Metro AQMD
Teacher Training in Taipei• First pilot for trainers and teachers• Teacher’s guide and labs in
development• Ideas for improvements
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Funded by U.S. EPA and EPA Taiwan
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Workshop in Taichung
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Workshop in TaichungKMS prompts lots of discussion
Data Interpretation10
Results from all five teams
Data Interpretation11
Averaged results
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Data InterpretationStudents add photos along their paths
Next Steps• Make improvements to app• Finish teacher’s guide• Develop labs and additional activities• Add gas sensing to the program• Create additional deployments,
evaluations, and improvements
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Contact Info:Tim Dye
Sonoma Technology, [email protected]
@sonoma_tech