Fellowship's solar panels turn light into electricity

How much do the Fellowship’s young people (grades 3 through 8) know about climate change and solar energy? Quite a lot, as Green Earth Ministry members Dave Horst and Linda DeLap discovered during a religious education class on October 19. After a review of climate science, Dave demonstrated concepts of electronics using a light-emitting diode, a small solar panel, and a tiny electric motor. Did you know that solar panels contain diodes? LEDs are diodes that turn electricity into light, and solar panels are diodes that turn light into electricity! The class ended with the children looking out a west-facing window in Room 302 to view the Fellowship’s recently completed solar installation.