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As part of his High School science course titled Fuel Cell Education, every year Ross McCurdy has his students complete a solar-powered project. He started back in 2001 with small solar fuel kits and has evolved the projects over the years. He and his students have successfully run a solar-powered Battle of the Bands and driven across country in a biofuel powered car. Currently, he and his students are constructing a street legal Model T that runs on electricity. This class is part of Ponaganset High School’s Fuel Cell Education Initiative, which was spawned from the installation of a 2KW solar array on the school’s roof. Mr. McCurdy also directs this initiative. The mission of the initiative, according to McCurdy, is “to further the understanding of fuel cell technology and implement it into the high school curriculum.” And as with most high school classes, this course has been designed with several learning outcomes in mind, such as communication of “information of a scientific nature” and problem solving. This program represents an example that the EcoEd Group can learn from seeing as it teaches students not only how alternative energy sources work, but how they can be implemented. The only way this could be improved for our purposes is shortening the length of the curriculum and simplifying the project for use with younger students. www.protium.us