Best Kickstarter Ever

[thesummerqueen]

This fourth-grade class is building its very own solar array, and you can help

Aaron’s Class started their Kickstarter with the goal of raising $800. The fourth graders had been learning about clean energy, and they decided that they wanted to make their own classroom solar-powered “so we can conserve resources, have less pollution, learn how it works, and tell the world.” Eight hundred dollars would have set them up with a simple system that would have covered their classroom energy use.

So far, they’ve raised $3,500.

That means they’re going to be able to build a solar power system that creates more than 1 kilowatt of clean energy. They can power not just their classroom, but other classes in their school. Every student in the class can build his or her own wind turbine. And they still have 24 hours to raise money. If they raise another $500, they say, they can buy two more solar panels and provide even more clean energy.

This is what keeps me from feeling like the world is going to hell in a handbasket. The schools don't provide for things like this thanks to the governments horrible systems, but the internet can help provide students with the help they actually need, thanks to donations by generous people.

[downbeatplumb]

I wonder how muck lecky $4000 would buy.
It sounds like enough to power three classes for a while.