CREED PROJECT
The CREED
(Center for Renewable Energy Education and Demonstration) Project, the
brainchild of Roger Aiken BSc, ME(Elect) rogeraiken@creedproject.org was an educational nonprofit set up to provide
energy/conservation classes/courses to high and middle school science, math and
tech. ed. teachers in Minnesota for graduate credits at the Masters level. These were held in cooperation with Hamline
University’s Department of Science Education, with CREED Project providing the
instruction and Hamline the graduate credits.
A few classes were offered at Hamline, but the majority of the
instruction was offered through two-week live-in courses for teachers at the
Laurentian Environmental Center near Virginia in Northern Minnesota. Two live-in courses for teachers were also
held at the Minnesota West Community and Technical College at Granite Falls in
cooperation with Southwest Minnesota State University.
Roger Aiken became the Project’s first
Executive Director in the late 1990s and subsequently its Lead Instructor in
the 2000s. He was ably assisted in the
instruction given to teachers by Carl Sandness of Hibbing carl.sandness@gmail.com.
Others
who also assisted with the instruction were: -
Darryl
Thayer of Minneapolis darylsolar1@gmail.com
Gregory
Pusch of Plymouth gphamline@yahoo.com
Rich
Huelskamp of Red Wing rich@sunswarmth.com
The courses provided for teachers were
arranged into eight groups as follows: -
Group 0. Energy Basics.
Group 1. Mathematics for Energy Problem
Solving.
Group 2. Solar Direct.
Group 3. Solar Meteorological – Wind and
Waves.
Group 4. Solar Photosynthetic – Biomass.
Group 5. Building Energy Systems.
Group 6. New Energy Technologies.
Group 7. Energy Policy.
For credit, teachers were required to take tests on
the lecture material, carry out labs and solve problems. Over 200 teachers took some of the courses
but only those who completed all the work required for the Hamline credits
received Graduate Credit Certificates.
One other person who assisted us when we
launched CREED Project was Will Nabors will@septembersigns.com. He set up our
domain name www.creedproject.org for us to which my e-mail address rogeraiken@creedproject.org is attached.
More recently Roger Aiken has authored a
couple of books. These are:-
“God,
Creation, Discovery, Awe – Essays on General Revelation”, Xulon Press, ISBN 978-1-5456-4507-9
(hard cover) and 978—1-5456-4506-2 (paper back), and
“Halfway
Round the World in 60 Days – 1961 Travelogue”, CREED Project, ISBN x…………….x.
Both
books are available from Amazon or, for an autographed copy, from the author.