Last year ACE awarded more than $25,000 to 11 incredible student leaders, like Zena Sabath who founded and directed her school’s green club in Texas and Dan Knickelbein, a community organizer and active member of Oak Park’s Environment and Energy Commission in Illinois.

We are on the lookout for our next batch of scholarship winners as 2011 gets rolling. This year, we’re awarding 10 $2,500 scholarships to students across the country. Will you be one of them!? The deadline is February 17, 2011. Download our application here.

Today we have a story from ACE 2010 Scholarship winner Adam Raudonis.

Hi my name is Adam Raudonis and I’m currently a freshman at Stanford University. I used my ACE scholarship to purchase a laptop for college that I wrote my solar energy iPhone App on.

The PV Solar Calculator now available on iTunes allows homeowners and solar installers to easily calculate a solar energy system’s economic and environmental benefits. In high school my main project, Students for Solar Schools focused on increasing adoption of solar panels on school campuses.

Yet, thanks to the ACE Scholarship and my new programming tools I have been able to explore the field of green information technology in college. I am considering majoring in computer science or energy & atmosphere engineering.

I believe that these interests can actually mix because we will need to use complex software programs to model how we can achieve the highest energy efficient in buildings.

Also, apps can help consumers evaluate the financial and environmental impacts of incorporating renewable energy and going green.

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Adam Raudonis is a freshman at Stanford University. In high school he founded Students for Solar Schools and represented the US Climate Champions program at the Copenhagen Climate Conference.