Stories

We are pleased to announce the 2019 Minneapolis cohort! Eleven Twin Cities area schools and after-school programs have signed on for a unique STEM education program during the 2019/2020 school [...]

Charlotte Mecklenburg Students to Help Light the World Solar Suitcase initiative combines STEM education with global citizenship News Release Media Contact: Nepherterra Estrada Best O: [...]

To light schools in Uganda, Cesar Chavez and Winton Middle School students learned how to build Solar Suitcases in partnership with PG&E, Cal State East Bay University and We Share Solar. For [...]

Watch this short video that illustrates the importance of light for children who rely on sign language to communicate. Our installation of 5 Solar Suitcases at Kakamega School for the Deaf in May [...]

Our collaboration with Segal Family Foundation partners, Kakenya Center for Excellence and Solidarity & Advocacy with Vulnerable Individuals in Crisis (SAVIC), was featured in a guest blog on [...]

In November, the We Share Solar team led a one day workshop with middle school students at St. Agnes of Assisi School in Vaughan, Canada and 10 volunteers from Wells Fargo’s Toronto team. [...]

We Share Solar partnered with SunPower Corporation and Stiftung Solarenergie to install Solar Suitcases in some of the most remote schools in the world. The installation journey to get to some of [...]

We Share Solar was honored to be featured at the UNESCO TeachHer launch event in Paris in June 2016. Our program was showcased through a hands-on demonstration of Solar Suitcase building by [...]

In 2016, we installed 69 Solar Suitcases in schools and children’s homes in rural Kenya, impacting over 11,400 people. We partnered with Kenyan community-based organizations, Change Mtaani in [...]