Rob:  Well with wind power projects sweeping across our great state, some schools are looking to the skies to help cut their energy costs.  As our Keith Smith explains, for the small town of Fletcher, in Comanche County, it’s been a lesson in education.
Keith:  To say Fletcher High is on the cutting edge;
would be an understatement.  
Seniors, Frank Hastings and Jeffrey Raney, making sure the measurements are right.
Jeff Raney:  It really helps to have an obsessive compulsive personality, like me and Frank do.  Because most of our stuff, if you’re a hair off, then it's pretty well, you've got to start all over.
Keith:  Today, electricity is in the air.  Tech instructor, Jason Adams, showing off the school’s new wind turbine.
Jason Adams:  We’ve spent probably forty to fifty hours putting something together.
Keith:  Superintendent, Kathryn Turner, says there’s power in a place where ideas are encouraged.
Kathryn Turner:  The kids completely developed the project, built the project, and it’s going to be able to power one of our wells where we get our water from.
We learned how all the mechanics of turning the wind into energy, we've learned how electricity is produced.
Turner:  It’s real education.  It’s real learning.  This shows that rural schools can be on the cutting edge.  We’re the only school in the state of Oklahoma, that I am aware of, that is doing anything similar to this.
Adams:  Get in there hands on and learning how this stuff works.
Turner:  It’s more than just reading and answering questions, and taking a test.  This is living the information.
Keith:  Impacting the present, and a glimpse into the future.
Hastings:  Kind of cool to see something you made go up and actually work.
Jeff Raney:  A bunch of kids take and put together, from basically nothing, and built something that produces power for free.
Keith:  A first, at Fletcher High, that may not be the last.
Rob:  Now Keith tells us the school hopes to get a grant next year to buy a larger wind turbine that would completely power one of the buildings at their school.