Ridgewood High School teacher lauded by NJ Inventors Hall of
Fame A few years ago, using blackberry juice and titanium
dioxide, a non-toxic ingredient found in powdered sugar,
Ridgewood "High School (RHS) science teacher Lillian Labowsky
and her students began making dye-sensitized nanocrystalline
solar cells with enough "juice" to power a calculator. Three
years after Labowsky began the project, which was funded through
a National Science Foundation (NSF) program that paired graduate
students and grade school teachers to promote science education,
it is clear Labowsky did not just help her students make power -
she also empowered them to invent. For her involvement in the
innovative two-year project, Labowsky has received accolades
from both the state and the "district. The physics and chemistry
teacher was recently recognized by the Board of Education (BOE)
for the 2012 "Advancement of Invention" Award she received from
the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (NJIHoF) in "October. She
was one of only 25 scien