School's solar panels to help teach kids
Photo credit: Jacqueline Connor | Louis Squeo, Director of Marketing and Communications for Direct Grid Technologies, explains the new solar panel system that has been installed at East Islip High School with the help of generous donations in East Islip. (Jul. 17, 2012)
In a corner of East Islip High School's courtyard, two rows of newly mounted solar panels stand about as tall as knee-high socks.
The school expects to see about $600 in savings from the 16-panel, 3,500-kilowatt system in its first year, but teachers and officials say the system has much more educational value.
"It's great to have a system like this that we can use to educate students...
