By Daryl Youngstrum - Daily News staff

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Working on a science project on your own time can be a rewarding experience. Just ask Rhinelander High School junior Ben Nebgen.

For the past few years Nebgen has been working on and documenting a solar energy lighting project. Now he is the high school-level recipient of a Wisconsin Igniting Creative Energies Challenge Award sponsored by Johnson Controls, Inc.

Johnson Controls Service Branch Manager Leif P. Nygaard announced Nebgen's award in a ceremony tha included his classmates Wednesday in the school's tiered classroom.

"The purpose of the competition is to challenge students to design projects for saving energy," Nygaard said. "This project, called The Solar-Powered Light, met that criteria and was also backed up with two to three years of data."

Nebgen will receive an award as the high school winner for Wisconsin at a March 12 ceremony in Milwaukee. He also will receive his choice of a $1,500 savings bond or a new laptop computer, and he will be entered in the national Creating Energies Challenge competition. The national winner picks up a trip for two to Hawaii.

He is the son of Mark and Nancy Nebgen of Rhinelander.

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