Renewable energy summer camp teaches Juneau’s next generation about generation

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Renewable energy summer camp teaches Juneau’s next generation about generation
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The camp featured classroom lessons on wind and solar power and field trips to hydropower sites like Salmon Creek Dam.

Akira Schaefer and his mom, Lyndsey Schaefer , show off his shoebox home with a working wind turbine and a lego “ green roof .”

In this case, the wind came from a fan that turned the turbines’ cardboard blades. Inside the house, a little blue LED glowed.The panels actually worked. Red and black cables carried real solar and wind power into the model. The week-long camp was modeled after a similar camp that happened in Sitka last summer, led by Renewable Energy Alaska Project’s Energy Educator Clay Good. This year, Good brought it to Juneau.

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