This session showcases the Solar Data Dashboard project as a hands-on research environment, where students in the Computer Science Training through Projects program built a real-time solar data system for public display.

Through a partnership with Turning Sun Solar, this initiative demonstrates how innovative collaboration can develop both talent and infrastructure. Students will present on their learning outcomes, offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at applied learning in action.

Presenters Tania Andrist and Ryan Gustafson will explore how rural institutions can build capacity and deliver innovation locally, rather than exporting it elsewhere.