AzRise in alliance with the University of Phoenix is proud to congratulate the 2010 winners of the Young Solar Innovator Awards.  These students

competed at the recent 55^th Annual Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair (www.sarsef.org), held March 8-12, 2010, with solar-related science projects. Nineteen award winners, ranging in age from kindergarten through high school, were awarded certificates of merit, ribbons and prize money - $25.00 for second prize winners, $50.00 for first prize winners and $100.00 for the Grand Prize winner - for their projects. “AzRISE and our partners at the University of Phoenix are honored to have had the opportunity to participate in this event. We were so impressed by number and quality of science projects at all grade levels that concerned solar and renewable energy,” said Dr. Kelly S. Potter, Director of Education at AzRISE. “The competition was stiff and it was difficult to select winners but the projects selected represented the best in their grades,” Dr. Potter said.  Young Solar Innovator Awardees were evaluated based on the scientific quality of their content in the poster abstract, hypothesis, materials list, procedure, results, conclusions, log notebook and the overall scientific curiosity exhibited in the project.