Outside the Lynch Elementary School, fourth graders held palm-sized solar panels wired to tiny motors, testing what happened when light hit the panels, when a hand blocked them and when the devices were tilted away from the June glare.

The experiment was simple enough to fit in a child’s hands, but it pointed back toward the larger system above and around them: the solar panels on their new school, the heat pumps on the roof, the ceiling cassettes in their classrooms and the town investment behind it all.

[Full Article – Winchester News, 6/10/26]