Mr. Cool sponsors Keep a Cool Head with 6 AC units | THE DAILY HERALD

MPC students and teachers in front of the MPC C-building where the first three classrooms will get AC in November.

 

~ First three MPC classrooms to be air-conditioned in November ~

 

EBENEZER–“Mr. Cool”, a refrigerator and air-conditioning supplier in Cole Bay, is sponsoring the Keep a Cool Head project with the provision of six inverter units. The units will be installed for free in Milton Peters College (MPC) classrooms in November.

  Project Keep a Cool Head, providing solar-powered air-conditioning (AC) for MPC classrooms still in lack thereof, was launched in September by accounting firm Baker Tilly, a delegation of MPC teachers and students, and Foundation for Secondary Education SVOBE.

  Mr. Cool is the preferred supplier of AC units and as such knows his way around the MPC school premises. Baker Tilly said in a press release on Monday that his sponsoring of six AC units and free installation marks another US $5,000 in sponsoring for project Keep a Cool Head.

  As the solar panels will be installed separately from the ACs, the first three units can be put in place already. Installation is expected to commence in the second half of November.

  The project team’s technical consultant The Wizards advised putting in place two smaller AC units instead of one big one, thus increasing the sustainability of the AC system. “If one AC is defective or needs to be serviced, back-up is provided for. The smaller ACs are also less demanding on the solar park, which is to be installed on one of the MPC roofs,” they said.

  “The AC units to be placed will be high-end inverter units with a relatively high energy-saving certification. In combination with the solar park, expectations are that the MPC GEBE bill will drop after finalisation of the project.”

  Baker Tilly project manager Erik van Engelen explained: “As the project Keep a Cool Head has two funding programmes, one being the Adopt a Classroom – Alumni Programme, and the other being the crowdfunding initiative, this sponsoring in kind will be allocated to the crowdfunding part. For the crowdfunding we still need US $50,000, after Mr. Cool’s kind donation.

  “Students and teachers are working hard on other crowdfunding initiatives, of which the flagship will surely be the ‘Stop School Fights – Keep a Cool Head School Party’, to be organised in the Festival Village in December. Entrance fee will be $15 and St. Maarten bands are expected to be performing.”

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