With the help of The Chawkers Foundation, Relay Education recently completed a year-long pilot project in Alberta. Relay is Canada’s premier renewable energy education group and runs (among many other things) hands-on school programs in primary and secondary classes (like Plug in the Sun, Renewable Design Challenge,  and  Green Collar Careers).  This last year, Relay was able to start school programs in Calgary, Edmonton and Treaty 7 communities in which students designed and built a solar phone charger. And they kept the charger at the end!

Their success has led them to a big expansion for next year in Edmonton, and further pilots planned for Saskatoon and Vancouver.