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in an effort to better understand student learning, particularly deep learning, as it occurs at vanderbilt, the cft is producing a special series of podcasts highlighting student projects across a variety of disciplines.<\/p>\nin an effort to better understand student learning, particularly deep learning, as it occurs at vanderbilt, the cft is producing a special series of podcasts highlighting student projects across a variety of disciplines.<\/p>\n
in this episode we join cft director derek bruff as he reports on-location from the floor of the poster session at the school of engineering’s senior design day<\/a>. he talks with chemical and mechanical engineering students about what they learned while collaborating on their senior design project, one that resulted in a spinach-powered solar cell. the project has earned the team a marketplace innovation award and $90,000 of development funds from the epa. for more on the team’s projects, see the school of engineering’s recent press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n \/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/cftpodcast\/ep30_spinach.mp3<\/a> [mp3, 6 min 55 sec]<\/p>\n for more perspectives on project-based learning, see derek’s profhacker post, “motivating students with application projects and poster sessions<\/a>” and listen to podcast episode 17, “guil gualda on student projects in google earth<\/a>.” and stay tuned to the podcast throughout the summer for more on-location reports on student learning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" in an effort to better understand student learning, particularly deep learning, as it occurs at vanderbilt, the cft is producing a special series of podcasts highlighting student projects across a variety of disciplines. in this episode we join cft director derek bruff as he reports on-location from the floor of the poster session at the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":10063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[116,69,76,85,80],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154219\/img_2640a.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25143,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions\/25143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>that’s student paul mcdonald on the left, one of the members of the spinach-powered solar cell team, showing off his periodic-table tie.<\/p>\n