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Members of the California Legislature will honor the Green Tech Solar Suitcase Project, Thursday, August 15, for its exemplary service providing local youth an introduction to solar technology and delivering portable solar lighting to orphanages and medical units in developing countries. The floor ceremony inside the California Senate Chambers at the State Capitol begins at 9:00 am.
Senators Noreen Evans (D-Solano), Lois Wolk (D-Napa) and Lonnie Hancock (D-Berkeley) have invited the Green Tech program to the Senate Chambers to celebrate the completion of the Solar Suitcase Project 2013.
The project successfully introduced local high school and college students to the Solar Suitcase, a portable photovoltaic lighting system. The students learned how to build the Solar Suitcase, configuring the system and wiring the guts. Upon completion, Green Tech and its partners delivered the Solar Suitcases to orphanages, hospitals and schools in Haiti, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Uganda. The lighting systems are now installed in facilities, with unreliable lighting grids, that currently house children living with AIDS and in hospital maternity wards in some of the most underdeveloped parts of the world.
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