Students from Keene State College are now competing for the Environmental Protection Agency’s “People, Prosperity, and the Planet” award.
Known as the P-3 competition, college teams from across the U-S design projects aimed at achieving sustainable solutions to environmental issues.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports.
In January, the EPA awarded 58 college teams 10-thousand dollars to research and develop a project aimed at helping the environment.
A student team from Keene State College was among the finalists and now has a chance to win an additional 75-thousand dollars to put their project into action.
Irissa Plouff, a safety studies major on the team, says students have designed a closed energy loop, in which biodiesel is created and used in the same community.
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The six student team will compete with universities such as Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The winners will be announced in Washington D.C on Tuesday, Earth day.
For NHPR news, I’m Amy Quinton.
