Last week we were assigned our groups for the final project. Our group consists of Mauro, Brittany, and myself. When we first got together we were very concerned about what to do for our project because of our very limited scientific backgrounds, but soon enough things started to come together and we got some good ideas flowing.

Mauro explained to us that he is an economics major and has a great deal of interest in helping developing nations. He told us how he wanted to do something regarding solar energy and how that can be delivered to developing or third world nations. Considering that Brittany and I had very few ideas as to what to do, and since Mauro was very willing to bring what he knows and is interested in to the table, we decided that this would be a good plan.

We thing researched some solar experiments online. Something that we decided that we want to communicate through our lab is how much energy can actually be generated through solar power. Though we did touch on this on our class’ solar panel lab, we want to reinforce some of those lessons from that lab and then find a way to apply that to developing nations who might not have electricity.

After recently watching the documentary Pandora’s Promise I learned that access to electricity and power is something that can define a country as first world. Access to electricity and power dramatically impacts the quality of life of the citizens of that country and I feel as though that is an important thing to tackle in our lab and presentation. We plan on doing a great deal of work and research in our next class meeting and in the coming weeks to make this a good experience.