Ms. Lepry, the grade 6 science teacher, is the advisor for the Community Turbine Project, a service learning group. The objective of the Community Turbine Project is to build small wind turbines using metal. Community turbines are windmills, which produce green electricity. Her high school group in her former school made small windmills for a good cause, so she is also making some windmills in UNIS.

The project started in January 2012, and the group is expecting to finish the project by January 2014. When the turbines are completed, they will be given to underprivileged Vietnamese schools in windy places like schools on top of mountains that don’t have electricity but have a lot of wind.  So she has to find an appropriate school on which to donate the turbine.

To complete this project, the group needs many metal pieces and workshop men to make the turbine. So they are raising money by selling t-shirts and bumper stickers at lunch on Turbine Tuesdays!

It’s not too late for other people to take part in the project. People can help by buying t-shirts and bumper stickers to help the group raise money. High school students can help by volunteering their services as: writers, graphic artists, photographers and engineer types. She would like to have high school students be involved. We also hope that in many schools, the students can study in a better environment with green electricity.