NYC Middle Schoolers Win National STEM Award

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A team of students from Harlem's Columbia Secondary School received the Best Management of Water Resources award at the national Future City STEM competition, held in February in Washington, D.C. The contest encourages middle schoolers to design cities to solve societal issues. Aileen Colon, Amalia Dayle, Annette Salas, Amber Springer and Sophia Vinasco created their city, Cos-mopolis, with help from teacher Philip Hubbard, and won Future City's regional heat in January, according to a press release. Bentley Systems presented the national award. Students from Edlin School in Reston, Va., won the competition's grand prize.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in March that he would set aside $1.4 billion for renewable energy projects, mostly solar in nature, which his office called the largest such commitment by a state. "We believe the future is a clean energy economy," he said, criticizing the Trump administration's focus on fossil fuels. The 26 large-scale projects that will benefit include a hydroelectric facility in Lewis County, a wind farm spanning Allegany and Cattaraugus counties, and 22 utility-scale solar installations statewide. The Solar Energy Industries Association, in a release, called it a "historic commitment to solar energy."