Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
(co-champion of 2010 Wind Energy Challenge) |
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the winning college and high school teams that designed and built the most efficient portable wind turbine systems as part of the 2010 Indian Education Renewable Energy Challenge with the Argonne National Laboratory. The awards were presented at the Interior Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“I am proud to announce the winners of the first annual Student Energy Challenge and I welcome the partnership we have forged with Argonne National Laboratory,” Secretary Salazar said. “Finding unique and stimulating ways for students to translate their classroom learning to the real world is a key to developing our future scientists in Indian Country. In a few years, these students will be leaders in developing renewable energy resources for their tribes and the reservation economies.”
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