Middle school science teachers from Wenatchee, Wash. rolled up their sleeves earlier this year to enhance their approach to engaging students in hands-on engineering. In a training session with Pete Phillips, Executive Director of Technology Service at North Central Educational Service District, local teachers worked to harness solar energy to build solar electric cars. This workshop, which will continue in other communities across Washington throughout the month, is part of Junior Solar Sprint (JSS), a program sponsored by Washington STEM and the Apple STEM Network to cultivate an interest in STEM among middle-schoolers in the fields of alternative fuels, engineering design and aerodynamics. Every teacher who participates in the program returns to the classroom with a ready-to-use kit so students can design, construct and race their own solar cars. Hear more from Phillips and Apple STEM.