12th Annual SEEA Conference & Research Symposium

UL Research Institutes is a world-leading organization that is hard at work discovering how safety science can help solve increasingly urgent problems like renewable energy from lithium-ion batteries. Additionally, ULRI is committed to educating the future of safety science with their free platform - Xplorlabs.org. Xplorlabs inspires students and educators to solve real problems like supply chain issues of lithium-ion batteries. In this interactive session participants will attempt to mine for resources, reclaim the land once those resources have been extracted, and use the no cost Xplorlabs.org to explore solutions to the problems mineral extraction poses. They will then consider the application of this hands-on lab to place-based education opportunities (e.g. Okefenokee Swamp titanium mine, Boundary Waters copper and nickel mine).