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WATANABE: Thank you. Dean, you may begin, and would you state your name and address for the record. MACY: Dean Macy. My address is 65-1142 Hokuula Road, Kamuela, HI. And we are just here to further reach on Dr. Wiecking’s three goals of the energy lab of education. So the energy lab is a great way for education of students because it engages the students in the design, construction and evaluation of renewable energy, which is what we are going to need for our future to further keep human existence on this earth. And the energy lab will let the students evaluate everything and see what’s going on, and make HPA a full self-sustainable community, hopefully. WATANABE: Okay. Fellow Commissioners, do we have any questions for Mr. Macy? None? Thank you. Okay, Alyssa. EVANS: My name is Alyssa. My address is P. O. Box 437463, Kamuela, Hawaii. We as students are really enthusiastic about this project. I mean, it’s going to benefit our student body immensely. I mean, I know a lot of fellow students who will be excited to work in the energy lab and use all the resources and everything. And It’s a great example for us to learn from, like, we are already involved in the building and design and all the aspects of it so far. And just keeping along with this process will help us in future and the future if we have any projects that are similar to this, we can use it in our future. And it’s also a great model for the community to follow by, like, it’s a great example for renewable energy sources and the community can come by and see how useful it is and how helpful it is to our school. And we can also involve other schools worldwide, and projects that we start and conduct and research that we -, just different research projects we can conference with other schools worldwide. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Do we have any questions for Alyssa? Yes, Mr. Alameda. ALAMEDA: Hi, Alyssa. First of all, thanks. Thanks for coming. I know you have a busy teenager day, and you took time out to come and share your thoughts with us. That’s awesome. Thank you so much. You know the idea of the -, you guys do like conferencing, you know, where you can talk to other high schools on the TV and you could have the dialogue? EVANS: Yeah, actually at our Sustainability Congress we conferenced with a school in Alaska and also a school in Germany, and we were sharing our ideas within the students, just different ideas that we had for our schools and we were talking about just different projects that we were doing and -. It really got a lot of the students excited and really enthusiastic about this new energy project and stuff. ALAMEDA: Fantastic. Thank you so much. Keep going. EVANS: Thank you. That’s all actually. Thank you, Commissioner. And we really appreciate all your support. EXHIBIT A 7