summer 2012 Oh the Places You'll Go! - St. Lawrence College

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The Sound of Solar: ESET Students
Rock Earth Hour
EVERY
NEEDS A START
In the photo are our ESET/SEARC students: D.J. Offord (blue pants) and Scott Myers.
(Photo: Adegboyega Babasola)
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They may not have been on stage,
but the show could not have gone on
without them.
On March 31, Kingstonians gathered
in Market Square to celebrate
Earth Hour, and SLC’s Energy Systems
Engineering Technology (ESET) program
in collaboration with the Sustainable
Energy Applied Research Centre
(SEARC) supplied a solar powered offgrid
system that ran the sound stage.
A couple of months prior to the
event Scott Myers, a second year
student in the ESET program and student
research assistant with SEARC,
worked with Professor Ian Kilborn
(ESET) to size and design the solar
charged system. The project came
together with the help of D.J. Offord
and Brian Fryer, both students from
ESET and both working with SEARC.
Due to their combined efforts “off-grid
solar powered” sound and lighting
was provided to two bands that entertained
the Earth Hour crowd for an
hour and a half.
Prof Hugh McLaren Jr. and research
department staffer Ashley Stebbins
manned the College’s booth at the
event and said numerous visitors mentioned
how great it was that the college
was part of the Earth Hour event and
had the ability and know-how to provide
such a system.
– submitted by Adegboyega Babasola
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