A class of elementary school students in Durham, North Carolina recently set out on a mission to make their classroom 100 percent solar powered. The fourth grade class started a Kickstarter campaign: Our Solar Powered Classroom for that purpose, and they greatly exceeded their goal. The class has stated that the extra funds will be used to purchase a larger system, which will then sell back electricity to the community. As you’ll see below, the class whizzed past their initial goal.
The class, dubbed in the campaign as “Aaron’s Class,” had recently begun learning about the modern uses of energy/electricity and the sources and systems that provide it. And in the process of learning about this, it became apparent that the class was very excited by solar energy. So they created the goal of trying to set up their own solar panel system.