Why solar panels?
We got the idea for this year’s grant after touring Atlantic City’s wind turbines and solar farms. If you haven’t seen them and you’re in the area, you really need to check them out.
Not only are they producing clean energy, but they’re beautiful, too. The kids were really blown away by them (no pun intended).
The light we saw in our students’ eyes gave us the idea to apply for a second grant doing a project with solar panels.
As for why we keep picking “green” projects, it’s because it’s the job of engineers to solve problems and the greatest problem facing the planet today is energy. The wind turbine project and the solar panel/greenhouse project get our students thinking about how they use energy and what we can do to reduce our energy consumption.
