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Sustainability in Action: Looking for Talented and Passionate Students

During COVID, more than 800 classrooms were equipped with plexiglass shielding which has been removed and could have headed for a landfill.  Instead, the EPICS Lakota team is working to repurpose the materials in partnership with the Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to design passive solar heaters, greenhouses and storm windows using the materials from the Purdue classrooms. We need more creative students to help design, test and develop concepts with the tribal college that will meet the needs of the residents of the reservation. … Read more Sustainability in Action: Looking for Talented and Passionate Students