ASU-developed SolarSPELL libraries deployed to help communities in Arizona
One of the solar-powered devices now being used by Hopi health care workers and crisis responders sprung from Laura Hosman challenging students to create a solar-power library that could fit into a backpack. The associate professor in The Polytechnic School, part of the Fulton Schools, and ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, is now is now the founder of the Solar Powered Educational Learning Library, or SolarSPELL. The SolarSPELL team has trained patient navigators with Hopi Cancer Support Services and an ASU doctoral student helped by providing more additional information and leading training sessions. SolarSPELL student workers are helping to further develop and curate the library content.