WE ARE! Pleased to announce the State College Solar Tour 2017, organized by the Penn State Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society.
Tour Details
Date: Saturday, October 14, 2017
Time: 1:00pm – approx 4:30pm
Starting Location: MorningStar Solar Home on Penn State Campus
Parking for Starting Location: Grassy tailgating lot, adjacent to the MorningStar Home, off of Porter Rd (see map below). The MorningStar Home is just south of the Medlar Field baseball stadium.
How the tour works: The entire tour group will meet at the MorningStar Solar Home located off of Porter Rd, below Lubrano Park (baseball stadium) at 1:00pm. Tour members will be checked in, given some tour materials and receive a briefing on locations, directions, and parking. We will then have a brief guided tour of the MorningStar Home from the PSU Sustainability Institute. Following that tour, participants will drive themselves to the next tour stop and meet at the specified time. This is how the rest of the tour will proceed until the last stop; from there tour members are welcome to disperse.
In the case that we have a much larger enrollment than past years we will be exploring other options to structure the tour. One option is a shotgun (staggered) start, while still remaining a guided tour. Our second option is to transition to a self-guided tour, starting at the MorningStar Home; this more closely reflects larger tours in much of the nation.
We will post updates concerning the tour structure as people register for the tour and will reach out via email if the tour structure changes. We appreciate your patience as we work to grow the State College Solar Tour.
All tour members are responsible for their own transportation. If you are a student in need of transportation from the MorningStar Home to the following tour stops, please indicate that by selecting the appropriate check box in the registration form below. We have a limited number of seats available.
Register now, but check back for more information and the location of our other tour stops!
Tour Materials
Participants in this year’s tour are encouraged to download this resource to a mobile device to reference on the tour or to print out at their discretion.
Registration
ASES National Solar Tour Info
Would you like more information on the nation’s largest grassroots solar event? The annual ASES National Solar Tour involves over 150,000 participants and 5,000 solar sites nationwide. Check out http://www.ases.org/tour/ to learn more about National Tour Month and the efforts of ASES at a country-wide level.
Questions about the State College tour?
Contact our local tour organizer:
Eric Podwojski
Vice President, Penn State ASES