{"id":73741,"date":"2016-09-20T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T01:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=73741"},"modified":"2016-09-22T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:44:11","slug":"palmdale-high-school-students-win-aire-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/09\/20\/palmdale-high-school-students-win-aire-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale High School students win AIRE Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Palmdale
Palmdale High School\u2019s Solar Falcon Race Team and AVAMQD Board members. [Contributed photo.]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER \u2013 Palmdale High School\u2019s Solar Falcon Race Team on Tuesday won the 2015\/2016 William J. \u201cPete\u201d Knight Memorial AIRE (Achievement in Reducing Emissions) Award.<\/p>\n

Presented annually by the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District, the AIRE award is given to a local entity or individual that makes an outstanding contribution to the prevention or reduction of air pollution emissions within AVAQMD\u2019s boundaries.<\/p>\n

\"Lancaster
Lancaster Councilmember Ken Mann tries out the team\u2019s solar car. [contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Solar Falcon Race Team is a unique high school program that trains students to design, build and ultimately race a zero-emission solar-powered car in a national competition.<\/p>\n

A branch of PHS\u2019 FAST Academy of Engineering and Technology Program, the Solar Falcon Race Team was created in 2014 to teach students real-world application of physics, advanced mathematics, finance, CAD computer modeling, engineering and industry-level work ethics. Students work side by side with professional advisors to design and manufacture a solar-powered electric vehicle. The vehicle is entered into the National Solar Car Challenge Race, an annual competition designed to motivate high school students in science and engineering, as well as increase alternative energy awareness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite fitting that we are presenting this year\u2019s AIRE Award to this team of students \u2013 as young innovators like these are the future of our nation\u2019s sustainability efforts,\u201d stated AVAQMD Chairman Marvin Crist. \u201cTheir generation is inheriting the care and keeping of our planet, and it<\/p>\n

is imperative that, from a young age, they understand the necessity of reducing our emissions and increasing our use of alternative energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AIRE award was accepted Tuesday by Antek Ignatowicz, Lead Advisor and Coordinator of PHS\u2019s Solar Falcon Race Team and Engineering Program, during the air agency\u2019s monthly governing board meeting in Lancaster.<\/p>\n

The AIRE Award is presented each year in conjunction with National Pollution Prevention Week, which is observed during the third week of September.<\/p>\n

In 2005, the AVAQMD\u2019s Governing Board renamed the District\u2019s highest honor after the late Senator William \u201cPete\u201d Knight for his pivotal role in creating the AVAQMD as a separate, locally governed air agency.<\/p>\n

[Information via news release from the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District.]<\/em><\/h5>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 Palmdale High School\u2019s Solar Falcon Race Team on Tuesday won the 2015\/2016 William J. \u201cPete\u201d Knight Memorial AIRE (Achievement in Reducing Emissions) Award. Presented annually by the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District, the AIRE award is given to a local entity or individual that makes an outstanding contribution to the prevention or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}