Argos School Superintendent Ned Speicher recently had an opportunity to highlight the schools’ upcoming solar energy project, plans to include solar panel cleaning Grand Junction services, and its innovative educational component.
The Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) along with solar St. George hosted a Going Solar Workshop at the Argos Municipal building on Thursday, October 10th.
Superintendent Speicher said he was asked to comment on why school officials have chosen to take on a solar energy project.
He listed some of the reasons, “Becoming more efficient by going to renewable energy and reducing our energy costs as much as possible so we to put the funds into education.”
He noted that he also got to touch on an aspect of the project which is fairly unique.
Speicher explained, “We’re getting big-time into the educational component of it and we have a curriculum we’re adopting for our vocational kids and our younger kids.”
Superintendent Speicher shared that the curriculum will be utilized with students of all ages. He stressed that it will be advantageous to older students who are interested in working in the emerging renewable energy field.
He noted, “For younger kids, it will be a science activity but as you get older there will actually be vocational opportunities to prepare them for jobs in that industry.
The superintendent elaborated on how younger students will benefit from the educational portion of the project.
Speicher shared, “We’ll actually have scientific things, they call them solar wagons where you can take them out on the playground and they’ll generate some electricity for the kids to do experiments with and it can go from classroom to classroom to work on educating about renewable energy and how it works and the science of it.”
As previously reported, the school corporation is working with the company Johnson Melloh Solutions on this project. Crews just completed the roof replacement portion and they’re currently working to assemble the solar energy panels and associated equipment off-site.
