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The latest ingenious service project from STAR School near Leupp has earned it $25,000 in technology and a chance to earn another $150,000 in technology as a national prize winner.

The project is a homemade swamp cooler that students plan to build and give to elders in the community who don’t have access to air conditioning.

The school submitted the project to the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest in November and was named the Arizona state winner on Wednesday. The school now moves on to the national stage to compete against 51 other schools. From that field, 10 finalists will be chosen to compete against each other for votes online.

The 10 finalists will present their projects to a panel of judges in April. Three winners will be chosen who will receive $150,000 in technology from Samsung and one winner will get the Community Choice award and another $15,000 in technology.

Mark Sorensen, who co-founded the school with his wife, Kate, said the idea for the project came from the school’s Information Technology guru Rob McCann and his wife, Kylie Morris, who is a science teacher at the school.