Malcolm Verdict, associate director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station’s (TEES) Energy Systems Laboratory, will address high-level government, business and financial leaders at the Asia Clean Energy Forum in Manila, Philippines, June 26-28.

About 40 high school students from Laredo’s two engineering magnet schools are working with researchers in the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) to provide electricity to colonias residents.