Teens create solar-powered tent for the homeless

These 12 teens of DIY Girls created a solar-powered tent for the homeless.

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00:00Even on the daily, walking to school, we see people living on the streets.

00:12We did a solar-powered tent for homelessness.

00:15The solar panel includes LED lights, UVC lights for sanitation, and a USB port for charging phones.

00:45The DIY Girls is a group of girls here at San Fernando High School who were challenged

01:09with creating or engineering solutions to different social problems.

01:15They were challenged to create a solar-powered tent.

01:34So, as you can see now, our lights are much brighter, which is how we want it to be in our tent.

01:45Coming from a low-income community, low-income school, we didn't have all the resources that a lot of the teams did have.

01:58And one thing that was really cool is we were the only all-female Latina team.