Parent Teacher Magazine Union County Public Schools May/June 2016 | Page 6

Clean Energy Academy powers dreams of a better tomorrow

Dalton Mangum, a 15-year-old sophomore
and focus on what we
at Parkwood High School, has been interested
need to get done to
in the field of alternative energy for as long as
make it work.”
he can remember.
Malayna remembers
“I feel that the way our world is working
one project in
today, with all of the over usage of fossil fuels, particular that was
if we were to take the time and instill some
very frustrating, but
alternative energy sources, that we could
finally came to a
better our earth in a way that we have never
successful conclusion.
done before,” he said, as he worked on a solar “We put something
panel he was building in class.
on wrong on the
Dalton and his team are almost finished
electric motor and we
with their solar panel, a project in his Clean
couldn’t get it off,