Students design camping tent that uses solar energy

“Our camping house is made with special materials, where we’re going to have solar panels, and LED lights, so that the person can see inside when it’s dark,” Kenia Shi, a high school student, was quoted by Efe news agency as saying. These students are also going to have a way to clean the house with ultraviolet lights, which kill bacteria. 

The installation of miniaturised solar technology in a mobile tent is the project being pursued by 12 Latino students at the San Fernando Magnet school in Los Angeles County, for which they received a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson InveTeam organisation at the MIT School of Engineering. The daughter of immigrants from El Salvador, Shi intends to study mechanical engineering at the University of California San Diego.