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For their Senior Design project last spring Alejandra Huitron '16 and Nicholas Supan '16 (electrical engineering) designed educational lantern kits with a solar charging system and lesson plans for assembly to teach high school students in Ghana how to bring lights into their homes. This summer, ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Global Scholars Catherine Murray '18 (mechanical engineering) and Nick Redfield '18 (political science), supported by Bright Generation Community Foundation and ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ's Frugal Innovation Hub, took the Solar Lights project to Abenoa, Ghana. They installed a solar panel in the rural community and brought lantern kits to the teachers and schoolchildren.  of their experience bringing light to Ghana.