Osprey block is a thing they started during my sophomore year, it is where students have options of classes to take for a 3 week period. These classes are lead by teachers. For my class I signed up for Wilderness Exploration and Landscape Studies with Cameron, Farkus, and Britt. The premise of our osprey block was 1 week of prep for the river, things like learning about the landscape of where we were going to be canoeing, packing, meal prepping. The second week we set out on meander canyon in Moab, Utah. We were on the river for 4 days and 3 nights and we all kept a journal to write and draw and take notes in. This trip was so fun for me because it was my first real river trip and we had a really good group for it. Than the week that we got back we made art to represent our time on the river.
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In this picture we are listening to Paul talk about energy and how much energy we consume in a day. Paul talked to us about how different things we do use different kinds of energy, for example he told us that an egg is 1 KW of energy and when we eat a given egg we consume 1 KWH of energy. He also talked about how our different roof shapes and location of houses affect how much energy solar panels can receive from the sun. With this knowledge we all went to our own homes to find the Pitch and azimuth of our roofs in order to find out how many solar panels it will take to power our house for a year. I need roughly 7 solar panels. This is Maggie Ines and I about to go up onto the roof to lay footings for the solar panels, later that week we laid the solar panels and learned why the work Paul does is important. By laying solar panels for people and communities they receive energy independence which helps ensure they get the energy they need. For example Paul talked about an upcoming project on the Navajo Nation,currently around ⅓ of the people living in the Navajo Nations have no energy. In the project he will design and install solar panels which will help the community get the energy they need to thrive.
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