When Rex Sauls talks about solar, his eyes light up like a kid in a candy store. He’s hooked! Rex’s passion for solar began decades ago through his love and interest in solar cars. He always thought that harvesting energy from the sun was a better alternative to fossil fuels. Over the years, he let his solar passion simmer while he pursued careers as a studio cameraman for a television network, to a salesman, ranging from part sales at a motorcycle shop to even owning a pet store with his wife.

For many kids across the Inland Empire, summer vacation is finally here! Tests, reading assignments, and district assessments are over and happy days reign again. For 32 at-risk high school students in Arroyo Valley High School's Cultivating Organic Recycling Environmentalists (CORE) Academy in San Bernardino, this summer is enhanced by their increased awareness about solar energy and how it can help them not only in summer’s hottest days, but in their future careers.