In a collaborative project with the

Engineering Specialty Center at L.C. Byrd

High School, Jacob and Emily will oversee
the timely assembly and delivery of three
solar panels that Bird students construct
while also being the point of contact with
the non-profits in Haiti. In addition to this,
a Haitian Culture Exchange Night will be
held to encourage cultural awareness and
sustainable power.

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A Capstone By Emily Blair & Jacob Nelson
Currently in 2013, only 25% of Haiti has energy
supplies, and since the earthquake of 2010, there
remains the need to reduce the gap not only for
basic service, but for emergency situations as
well. Due to unpredictable power shortages,
many communities in Haiti go numerous days at
a time with no power. P.O.W.E.R. seeks to
respond to the need of two local Haitian
communities by providing an alternative power
source when electricity is unavailable.
P.O.W.E.R.

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P.O.W.E.R.s objectives
The design of the solar
panels will be based
off of a similar project,
we care solar.
P.O.W.E.R. will design, build, and provide solar panels to an orphanage and a parish in Haiti in order to meet their
immediate energy needs. The P.O.W.E.R. team will consist of students from The Center for Leadership and
International Relations at James River High School (LSIR) and students from the Governors Academy for
Engineering Studies at L.C. Bird High School (LCB). Throughout this process, the P.O.W.E.R. team will facilitate
cultural education events to inform the Midlothian area about the situation in Haiti and bring awareness to the
project.

The LSIR team will be responsible for event planning, promoting cultural awareness, fundraising, and
communications. The LSIR ream leaders will recruit fellow students to assist in all of these aspects of the project
as needed. The LCB team will be responsible for designing the panels, acquiring the supplies, building the panels,
testing the panels, providing a prototype, and packaging the solar panels. The entire P.O.W.E.R. team is dedicated
to enhancing the knowledge of all participants in this project; therefore assessments will be given at the beginning
and end of the project to all participation LSIR students, LCB students, and community members to determine
how much they learned. LSIR students and LCB students will be evaluated on their leadership and engineering
skills, respectively, and all students and community members will take cultural awareness evaluations.

Involvement
The Power
to Improve
Lives