A local high school in Los Angeles goes green by installing photovoltaic (PV) solar umbrellas, Solarbrellas, to power computers.

SKYShades Solarbrellas, each of which produces over 600 watts of electricity from the sun, are being installed at Marymount High School to power students' laptops. After a recent initiative, to give every student in the preparatory school a laptop computer, the school looked into green ways to power the instruments.

SKYShades Solarbrellas came to the rescue. Four Solarbrellas will be installed across the expanive campus and is part of the Marymount High School Green Team. Each Solarbrella uses an Organic-based Photovoltaic Solar Panel to produce electricity from sunlight. Since they are organic-based, the Solarbrellas are recycleable. They are predicted to produce enough electricity to power four laptops for 9 hours a day.

This step of becoming green will help to educate students and faculty about the benefits of renewable technology and hopefully encourage the entire community to take steps to become greener. In addition, some of the science corriculum will be shifted to educating the youth on renewable energy. The Solarbrellas will provide students with a perfect, visible example of renewable energy at work.