{"id":294437,"date":"2026-09-26T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294437\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:12:07","slug":"pa-schools-go-solar-using-state-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294437\/","title":{"rendered":"PA schools go solar using state grant program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Students learn about careers in solar energy<\/p>\n<p>At Unionville High School, students in math and science classes will work with real-time power production data from the solar panels and will get up on the roof to see the system in action, Whitesel said.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson said the educational benefit of the solar project was a major motivator for Universal Audenried Charter High School\u2019s pursuit of the Solar for Schools grant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of emerging jobs in basically any hands-on industry, but specifically electronics and electricity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The solar array on Audenried\u2019s roof will give students in the school\u2019s engineering career and technical education program the chance to learn how to connect, disconnect and service solar panels, Anderson said. The school plans to work with Solar States to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-trainees-careers-in-solar-energy-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201csolar lab\u201d<\/a> where students will also gather real-time data on the energy the panels generate.<\/p>\n<p>Audenried senior Richie Palillero, 17, said he hopes to work in mechanical or robotics engineering, and that he\u2019s curious about how the new solar panels work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure this is interesting to all of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the crane lift materials onto the Audenried roof alongside Palillero\u2019s class, Gold-Markel directed students\u2019 attention to the worker operating the crane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s making about $80 an hour,\u201d Gold-Markel said. \u201cGuess what the roof workers on this job who are installing the solar are going to make. \u2026 $100 an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho here wants to make $100 an hour?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Several students raised their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students learn about careers in solar energy At Unionville High School, students in math and science classes will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,45540,5206],"class_list":["post-294437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-solar-panels","tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}