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Harmony Solar’s $25,000 Commitment Helped Expand Learning Opportunities at Central Cass

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When Central Cass Schools imagined new ways for students to learn, explore, and prepare for the future, community support helped move that vision from an idea to reality.

Through support from Geronimo Energy, now Geronimo Power, Harmony Solar committed $25,000 to the effort through five $5,000 donations made in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2025. As one of the campaign’s early donors, Harmony Solar helped build momentum for additional contributions from organizations and community members who shared the district’s vision.

That investment helped support Central Cass’s new STEM Center and Collaborative Active Learning Space, where students can explore science, technology, engineering, and math through hands-on learning. Built to encourage curiosity, creativity, and teamwork, these spaces give students room to test ideas, solve problems, and connect classroom lessons to real-world opportunities.

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Harmony Solar’s contributions were part of a larger community fundraising effort that generated more than $8 million in public and private support for a $29 million school improvement project. The broader project brought updated academic spaces, new classrooms, a greenhouse, expanded career and technical education programs, additional special education spaces, and facilities that serve both students and the wider community.

Central Cass Building Project Donors list

Today, Central Cass serves approximately 1,100 students across nine rural Cass County communities. School leaders have said the improvements have exceeded expectations, creating opportunities and experiences for students that reach well beyond what was first imagined.

The impact of a donation is not always visible right away. Sometimes, it takes shape over years, in classrooms, conversations, projects, and career paths students have not yet discovered. Through its commitment to Central Cass, Harmony Solar helped create spaces where students can explore new interests, build valuable skills, and imagine what comes next.

Learn more about Central Cass Schools: Central Cass 

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Sidney Nuese is a Senior Project Developer supporting the Nobles County Data Center through the development of its associated wind projects—Plum Creek 1, Plum Creek 2, and Lime Creek. A lifelong resident of southwestern Minnesota, Sidney brings deep local knowledge and nearly a decade of wind development experience. Since joining Geronimo Power in 2016, she has advanced multiple utility-scale wind projects across the region, building strong relationships with landowners and guiding projects from early siting through key development milestones.
 
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Marta Lasch is the Permitting Lead for the Nobles County Data Center, where she oversees environmental due diligence and land use permitting across local, state, and federal agencies. With nearly a decade of expertise working at the company, she has advanced over 1,600 MW of utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects throughout the Midwest and Texas—550 MW of which are in Minnesota. Her work focuses on regulatory compliance, environmental risk mitigation, and coordinating with multiple agencies to advance major infrastructure projects.

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