The Hands On Solar Daily News
Monday, July 6, 2009
Brian Hurd’s, “Hands On Solar, Inc.,” in collaboration with IREC, just offered two two-day solar energy training events for educators and trainers in San Diego and Santa Monica last month. Fifty educators from 40 different institutions attended his power-packed training, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The PV Systems Course Development Workshop featured the complementary talents of Dr. Jerry Ventre, an engineering consultant for the Interstate Renewable Energy Council with over thirty-five years of experience in various aspects of engineering, including research, development, design and systems analysis, and Dr. Barbara Martin, an expert in instructional design and theory, development, and educational technology.
The San Diego event was held at the California Center For Sustainable Energy on Jan 20 & 21st in cooperation with Miramar College and was a collaboration between IREC & Advanced Transportation Technology and Energy. Host Greg Newhouse, Director of ATT&E at Miramar College, and Brian & Catherine Hurd of Hands On Solar, Inc. administered the event. Twenty-three participants enjoyed two information packed days of training.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Hands On Solar was profiled in this article from Green Technology Magazine entitled “Capturing the Sun at East Los Angeles Skills Center” by Barbara Crane:
“With California in the midst of an unprecedented quest for clean energy, Brian Hurd, a vocational instructor at the East Los Angeles Skills Center (ELASC), realized that demand for photovoltaic installers was set
to explode. The ELASC, an employment preparation and training center, serves a diverse community that includes at-risk youth. To ensure that all of his students could have a chance to enter the solar industry, Hurd developed a course of study that would prepare them.