One Step Closer..

Within these last two weeks I have put in a lot of effort towards this project, but the up and coming weeks I will need to push a little harder in order to fulfill my goals. So far I believe my emails have been sent to spam and voice mails ignored because I have not gotten any feedback from the district office. In the mean time, I have had conversations with people in our high school main office these last two weeks about if there was any effort to install solar panels in the past, and I learned a lot about our district. Jessica Yang, a counselor at our high school, also believes that there should be solar panels at our high school and she finds the reason why we do not is ridiculous. She told me that a few years back it was brought up to the district office and the only reason why they decided against it was because it would "make our schools ugly." The PTSO group at our school was the organization that decided against solar panelling, which is ridiculous that they only think about how the school looks. It would honestly make our school look better to outsiders because it would show we are doing our part to become a greener school and help the environment. 

Besides that, I also talked to Susan Dini, secretary of our high school, and she was not exactly all-for having solar panels installed. She told me she had solar panels on her household roof and they have not paid themselves off yet. Mrs. Dini was the first person that I got to teach about my topic, which was a good trial run before I physically go into the District office. I laid out all the numbers and possible concerns and she was astounded at how much we would save. She reacted especially when I said that " 2.9% [of our government budget based on taxes] ($1,220,000) is used for new technology and supplies" which was a fact from our districts technology agreement. I told her that we use that money on just new monitors and upgrades to our systems that we do not necessarily need. If we install solar panels which would be at most $500,000 for our school, less than half of the technology budget, it would provide so much more energy and it would cut our utility bill to nothing, leaving more spending room in the future for better upgrades in our system or other campus improvements. Overall, Mrs. Dini was a great first run and now I think I'm ready to go up and talk to certain people at the district office since they will not respond to any of my attempts to reach out to them.