MorningStar Solar Home

Video posted December 5, 2013 in News by Cheuk Wai Vivian Lam

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MorningStar Solar Home at Penn State University at University Park is a net-zero home. It produces as much energy as it consumes. The process of building the MorningStar Solar Home was complicated and long. However, the Penn State team scored fourth place overall in the field of 20 international universities in 2007. The Solar Home is now about to be integrated in the Penn State HyRES Lab and will serve as a residence for a graduate student to test the house systems in real life conditions. Lisa Brown is the associate director for the Solar Home project and Sarah Klinetob is the project manager. They were both in charge of the MorningStar Solar Home project in 2007.

~ By Cheuk Wai Vivian Lam

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Cheuk Wai Vivian Lam

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My name is Cheuk-Wai Vivian Lam, and I am a Journalism major and Business minor student at Penn State University. I transferred to Penn State in Fall 2012 from a community college in Illinois. I worked as a staff writer in a student publisher in college and a PR in the Department of International Student Admissions. I also joined different media-related organizations at Penn State. I also had an internship in Shanghai with a TV channel in Summer 2013. These experiences have given me opportunities to improve my journalism skills. After graduating with my broadcast journalism degree in Spring 2014, I am ready to work as a reporter in news channels.