West Middle School engineering teacher demonstrates a bicycle he modified with seventh-grade students to operate as an "electric/human hybrid." Electricity that powers the bike is collected from solar panels on the WMS roof, and stored in batteries. Building and operating the bike and solar panels has been part of seventh-grade engineering curriculum on energy. Bethany Bray/staff photo. 4/5/2010


, West Middle School engineering teacher demonstrates a bicycle he modified with seventh-grade students to operate as an "electric/human hybrid." Electricity that powers the bike is collected from solar panels on the WMS roof, and stored in batteries. Building and operating the bike and solar panels has been part of seventh-grade engineering curriculum on energy. Bethany Bray/staff photo. 4/5/2010

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