High School team discover color changing roof

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Alan Zube, the Washington County Technical High School teacher instantly considered about the grant when the concept for an energy-efficient, color-changing roof came up in his Civil and Architectural Engineering class last year.

The InvenTeam grant picked out Tech High to be one of the 15 high school teams nationwide to be given a grant for their discovery formally known as “Temperature-sensitive, color-changing roof to combat global warming”. The only team chosen this year to represent Maryland was granted $6,500 for the venture.

Washington County Technical High School students, from left, Deanna Molnar, Amy Syverson, Jakob Scharmer and Ashley Willingham discuss developing a temperature-sensitive, color-changing roof to combat global warming. The school was awarded $6,500 for the project through a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant.

Chosen by his fellow students as a team head, senior Cody Case, 17, is in command of organizing the schedules and deadlines and keeping the team on duty as well as verifying the project blogs and Website are in order or up to date.

They look forward to having four test modules – 4-by-4-foot sheds that serve as a model of the interior of a house. The handy units will have data collectors within. The idea is to begin with a unit with a black shingle roof and one with a white shingle roof.

During winter months, nearly all information gatherings will be finished that will give the team the vital information to limit project options.