One of the biggest challenges to getting Lights Out programs adopted into official city ordinances is a lack of data on light pollution and its effects. For a group of students at University of North Carolina (UNC) Asheville, that challenge was an opportunity. The tale starts with Paulina Jones, a senior at UNC Asheville, member of Blue Ridge 探花精选, and the vice president and treasurer of UNC Asheville’s 探花精选 campus chapter. One day, Jones gave a presentation about Lights Out to her ethics class. She specifically focused on Blue Ridge 探花精选's work on the initiative, and the collaboration between Blue Ridge 探花精选 and the UNC Asheville campus chapter to create the Bird-Safe Asheville Coalition, which recently convinced Asheville's mayor to sign a Lights Out proclamation. That presentation sparked an idea in the mind of a fellow student, Katrina Schubert: create a low-cost tool to accurately measure light pollution. That way, Bird-Safe Asheville could get the data it...