Solar energy contest winners announced

     The Corporation for Solar Technology and Renewable Resources recently hosted a luncheon to honor the winners of the Solar Energy Science Contest, which was supported by the Clark County School District's School-Community Partnership Program.
      Each winner's teacher was also recognized.
      Tyler Benson, a sixth-grader at Theron L. Swainston Middle School, captured first-place honors for his model of a solar-powered battery charger.
      Second place was won by Chris Russell, a seventh-grader at Hyde Park Middle School. Russell submitted a model of a solar-powered home.
      Joel Baca, a sixth-grader at Hyde Park Middle School, took third-place honors for his model of a solar-powered water heater.
      Each winner received a trophy and a savings bond valued at $100, $75 and $50, respectively. Each teacher was awarded a $50 gift certificate to a science and nature store.
      The contest drew 23 entries, all of which demonstrated inventive and practical uses for solar energy in homes.
      Presenting the awards was Sen. Richard Bryan, chairman of the corporation.
      Judging the entries were: Rose McKinney-James, president and chief exeuctive officer of CSTRR; William Jackson, consultant to Nevada Power Co.; John Gardner, special projects director for the Desert Research Institute; and Earl Hodge, an electrical engineer for the Department of Energy.
      "The entries were thought-provoking and the concepts showed tremendous creativity," McKinney-James said. "It gives me great hope that our young people of today will find many uses for solar energy, and help make Nevada the leading state in the advancement of this technology."
      Co-sponsors of the contest were: The Howard Hughes Corp., Pulte Homes, Nevada Power Co. and Circus Circus.

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