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Sowing the Seeds of Solar Photovoltaic Education




Montana State educates high school teachers in solar photovoltaics to spread the knowledge and interest to today's emerging generation of scientists and engineers. Other schools, such as the University of Texas at San Antonio, offer a research bootcamp with specialties such as photovoltaics. ...
... "In addition to the credit toward their master's degrees, the teachers left MSU with the working solar cells they created, as well as the resources to teach students at their schools about how the cells work, Kaiser said. Giving teachers the laboratory experience lets them pass on lessons in applied science to their students, which is important to building interest in engineering, Kaiser said. " ...
Via Montana State University: Solar cells course

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