1) The students designed a portable solar panel cooker that uses sunlight as an alternative energy source to cook. 2) The cooker works by concentrating sunlight onto a black panel using aluminum foil reflectors, which absorbs the light and converts it to heat energy. A transparent plastic traps the heat inside. 3) During trials, the cooker was able to reach temperatures over 50°C, which is hot enough to boil water, demonstrating its ability to harness solar energy for cooking purposes.