Village Solar: Week 8

In Spring 2010, 17 students from ten countries are participating in 'Village Solar," a youth enrichment project that focuses on the potential of solar technology to improve the lives of the 1.6 billion people worldwide who currently live without access to electricity.

During four Fridays in April the students work under the guidance of Cooper Union's Socialite engineering team to construct durable, affordable solar-powered lanterns designed for rural populations subsisting on incomes of less than $2 per day.

Each Village Solar student must complete their own lantern over the course of the four weeks. The project includes full circuit board construction and lantern housing fabrication.

Following the completion of their lanterns, the group will construct 'solar home systems' (SHS) that modeled after a design that is typical of rural solar installation. The four SHSs will change the lanterns. The solar panels that power the SHS were constructed by the students during the first 2 weeks of the course.

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I wish I could have taken one of the classes you taught