Solar-Powered Classroom Challenge

Local middle school students in the Grand Junction area were invited to participate in the High Noon Solar sponsored ‘Solar-Powered Classroom Challenge’ late in 2007.

This competition offered students an opportunity to design the very solar system they could win for their schools.  The design involved incorporating a 2.16 KW solar grid tie into their school’s design, noting the immediate and long term benefits of the solar system and asking for a teacher proposal of how such a system would be incorporated into future classrooms and how it would be used as a teaching tool for years to come.

Three middle schools submitted proposals, which were judged by 3 judges from solar companies located outside of Mesa County.  A school was declared a winner by the judges and we are currently waiting for the winning school to give us the green flag to donate this solar system to the winning students’ school.  At that time we will be announcing the winner to the schools who participated and to the community at large.