Solar Futures

SunPower® Solar Academy: Real-World Business-Focused Experience

The SunPower Solar Academy is a week-long, intensive, work-based learning experience for high school students that includes lectures from professionals, hands-on activities and field visits. Student teams worked on a solar project to create a startup company and design a solar system for a client.

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Two high school students demonstrate how to correctly wear a safety harness during a class presentation.

Solar Futures shines a light on career pathways

As students around the world are speaking up in favor of a transition to clean, renewable energy, GRID's Solar Futures program is working with high schools and youth programs across the country to bring clean energy to the classroom.

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Summer 2019 CSUMB Solar Futures Program

This summer GRID Alternatives Central Coast partnered with California State University Monterey Bay to offer a six-week immersive solar class as part of the university's Upward Bound program.

The student cohort met on Tuesday and Thursday evenings in June and July and included ten high school students from across Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties. The program leveraged GRID Alternatives' hands-on solar installation model to educate and inspire the next generation of solar leaders.

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High school students take hands-on experience into unique solar internship

Jennifer Huerta and Cesar Ledezma, rising-seniors at Desert Hot Springs High School, are in the middle of an incredibly unique solar internship.

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SAVA students participate in GRID Solar Futures program

Last month, Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy (SAVA) students participated in our Solar Futures program. SAVA is a 7th-12th grade public charter school in Sacramento offering a personalized education path for each of our students. Instead of the traditional one-size-fits-all classroom, SAVA seeks to motivate and encourage students to be independent learners.

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The Legesma Family Gets Solar

About a year and a half ago, the Ledesma family was able to obtain their dream of homeownership thanks to the Coachella Valley Housing Coalition (CVHC).

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Release - GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic’s Solar Futures program prepares Washington, D.C.’s next generation of solar leaders

GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic’s innovative Solar Futures program, which aims to open career pathways in the solar industry and inspire the next generation to combat climate change, culminated on May 20 with capstone presentations from 16 students at the H.D. Woodson Academy of Engineering.

Solar Futures Brings the Roof to the Classroom

Jalen Jacobs, a junior at H.D. Woodson Engineering Academy, was in the middle of a story Tuesday afternoon when the shrill sound of an impact driver yanking up screws cut him off.

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French Students Visit GRID Alternatives Inland Empire

At a recent UCR Solar Energy Conference, a professor from Université Nice Sophia Antipolis stopped by GRID’s table and expressed interest in having their students visit GRID during their trip to the United States. GRID Alternatives Inland Empire (GRID IE) was excited to receive them.

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SunPower Partnership Supports Three GRID Solar Projects in Desert Hot Springs

Our mission of making clean, affordable renewable energy technology and job training accessible to underserved communities everywhere is accomplished thanks to strategic partners that align with our work and values. SunPower Corporation is one such partner.

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