La Pine Middle School

As a Renewable School, La Pine Middle School is building a dedicated community of renewable energy educators, generating clean energy through their 1-kilowatt photovoltaic (PV) system, and leveraging the system's performance data as an educational tool to bring energy topics to life in their classrooms. This project, made available through the generous support of Wells Fargo, helps increase student and public understanding of renewable energy and sustainable living practices. It also helps foster a deeper understanding of renewable energies, technologies, and continual thinking of innovative ways to develop renewable energies.

At the time of the project, energy monitoring provided to the school has connected the live performance data from their PV system to students and educators nationwide to analyze the system's performance data for educational purposes.

In 2009, educators within the school received a customized renewable energy teacher training, hands-on science kit materials to augment the school's existing curricula, and complete access to the resources available on the Solar4RSchools.org website.