New Xplorlabs Resource Designed for Career & Technical Educators

The Xplorlabs team has launched a first-of-its-kind, custom resource focused on fire science for high school career and technical educators in partnership with the Law and Public Safety Education Network.

The new resource represents a milestone for the education team at the Institute for Research Experiences & Education, as the first partnership with a career and technology education group. CTE classes are vocational courses that provide job-specific knowledge and skills for students starting as early as middle school.

This new resource hosted on the LAPSEN website features a tailor-made directory that connects CTE educators with individual Xplorlabs resources from the Science of Fire Forensics. With this new directory, CTE educators can complement their existing curriculum by bringing Xplorlabs’ hands-on, real-world learning experiences into what has often been a heavily text-based area of study and get a glimpse at how safety science can impact all career paths.

“CTE classes expose students to a variety of careers — careers students may not realize are connected to safety science,” said Ethan Schubert, Xplorlabs education specialist. “Through these resources, students can experience firsthand that safety science is not isolated to research and government agencies, but is practiced by the whole community to build resiliency and establish a safer world.”

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