Let There Be Light!

A group of parents from my school and I applied for funds for solar panels for the school through the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas.  Two community members attended a 3 day seminar in September where they learned about the grant application process and had a day of technical training on solar panels.  The funding came through and the company came out last week to install the panels on the school!  The technician (in the black shirt without a hat) was AwEsOmE!  He did a great job of explaining what they were doing throughout the process and gave my counterparts a lot of hands on practice.

We hosted a movie night in the middle of January (powered by a gas generator) to raise awareness for our project and money for our maintenance fund.  My friends Sonia and Drea lent us their projector, disk player, and support for our event.  We sold tickets for 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for kids, snacks were 15 cents, and we profited $56!  I was pretty impressed!  :)  When we advertised the event, we didn't put the names of the movies on the signs, so there were people that showed up, paid the entrance, sat down and asked, "What movie are we watching?"  We ended up showing Rio for the kids and Mission Impossible 4 for the adults.

Classy.