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Leeward is proud to have sponsored the 45th Annual Minden St. Jude Auction, benefitting children at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Since its inception, the Minden St. Jude Auction has raised over $20 million. This year’s auction raised $1,655,349, and Leeward is honored to support this fantastic cause alongside the Minden community and Northwest Louisiana.

Leeward is proud to serve families in Nolan County through the Sweetwater Goodfellows annual toy distribution. 

Leeward Renewable Energy is a host company for SMU Dedman Law’s corporate externship program, an innovative academic program that combines a corporate counsel class with externships in corporate legal departments.  The capstone learning experience supplements SMU Dedman Law’s rich business law curriculum with hands-on experience.

As owner and operator of Cedar Creek Wind Energy in Grover, Colorado, Leeward was presented the opportunity to help students at nearby Pawnee High School embark on the experience of a lifetime.

I would like to say thank you to the Leeward Renewable Energy Company for helping my school group and I go on this trip and getting to gain such an incredible new experience.

GR

Every three years, honor students from this rural farming community are selected to participate in the American Heritage Tour. This 10-day trip is a whirlwind journey to important historical sites in Washington D.C., New York City and Boston, and for these students — many of whom had never even flown on an airplane before — it’s a life-changing experience.

It’s also rather expensive, so Leeward proposed a plan to the Pawnee School Board to provide financial assistance for the seven students selected for the 2018 trip.

The Heritage Trip was an all-around amazing experience. Coming from a small town and a small farm and going to the big city was a huge difference.

RM

Each student had their trip down payment paid and was given $250 in seed money for fundraising efforts. Once the students had raised as much as they could, Leeward covered the difference, ultimately donating nearly two-thirds of the total cost.

The tour group were able to gain a greater perspective of what it means to be an American, visiting Arlington National Cemetery, the Smithsonian, the US Holocaust Museum, Mount Vernon, 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Statue of Liberty and the Boston Freedom Trail among many others. Afterward, the energized students captured their experiences and new appreciation for history in essays to complete the sponsorship.

Standing next to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial placed a sense of pride for my country in me and I feel more respect for the United States and the great people that helped create it.

CK

Leeward Renewable Energy is sponsoring a team of MBA students at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School in a research project for its capstone course.  The goals of the capstone project are to provide students with real-world experience and to provide sponsors the opportunity to work with students, develop relationships with students and faculty, and benefit from benefit from research, insight, and innovations resulting from student projects.

Leeward Renewable Energy is a member of the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Wind Energy, Science, Technology, and Research, a consortium of industry and The University of Massachusetts Lowell and The University of Texas at Dallas, which was established to perform research to enhance the national excellence in wind energy, develop technologies of direct relevance to the wind industry, and develop a cadre of diverse undergraduate and graduate students with world-class training who will support and eventually lead in the analysis, design, manufacture, installation, operation, and maintenance of wind energy systems.