Most days Danielle Carlson is teaching high schoolers about renewable energy in her Fennimore classroom. On Wednesday, she was learning to install actual solar panels on a Madison rooftop.Carlson is one of 16 high school and technical college instructors from across the country who came to Madison Area Technical College’s outdoor solar laboratory to learn hands-on skills as part of a new effort to advance clean energy development.Funded through a $7.5 million National Science Foundation grant, the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technology Education — or CREATE — is a collaboration of five state, technical and community colleges from across the country.
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