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The West Springfield Partnership for Education Spelling Bee

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The West Springfield Partnership for Education Spelling Bee

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Demetrios Panteleakis is an experienced commercial real estate executive with significant experience in fields that range from strategic financial analysis and portfolio planning to property development and management. Since 2014, he has served as president of the Macmillan Group in Springfield, Massachusetts. In addition, Demetrios Panteleakis is an active member of the West Springfield Partnership for Education (WSPE).

An independent community educational nonprofit, WSPE strives to continually support and improve the general quality of education and student resources for elementary and secondary schools in the West Springfield area. One of the WSPE’s annual events is the organization’s official spelling bee. This competition welcomes participants from a wide variety of local schools and scholarly organizations.

The 21st annual WSPE Spelling Bee took place on March 6, 2017, in the mini theater of West Springfield High School. WSPE president Kevin McQuillan moderated the event. Celebrity judges included local politicians such as West Springfield mayor Will Reichelt and Massachusetts State Senator Jim Welch. The event brought together nine competitive teams that hailed from St. Thomas the Apostle School, the West Springfield Public Library, the West Springfield School Committee, West Springfield Middle School, and all five West Springfield elementary schools.

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Demetrios Panteleakis serves as the president of the Macmillan Group LLC, the oldest commercial real estate firm in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. An advocate of sustainable power, Demetrios Panteleakis has managed solar powe rand energy efficiency projects valued at $7 million.

At the most basic level, solar panels work by converting sunlight into energy. This requires the use of photovoltaic cells, which consist of two layers of semiconductor material. Manufacturers infuse the top layer of the cell with phosphorus, which gives it a negative charge in the form of free electrons. The thicker bottom layer, meanwhile, receives a boron infusion, which creates a positive charge.

The difference in charge between the two layers creates an electric field in the space between. Then, when the photons in sunlight hit the cell, they loosen electrons in the top layer. Since opposite charges attract, the free electrons flow toward the positively charged bottom layer, at which point they are caught up in the electric field between the two layers and channeled into an external circuit.

As electrons move through this external circuit, they create an electric flow. This electricity can then function as a power source, and the electrons flow back into the cell to continue the process in a closed-loop format.

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Demetrios Panteleakis | Western New England University - Academia.edu

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Demetrios Panteleakis A longtime resident of greater Springfield, Massachusetts, Demetrios Panteleakis holds both a juris doctor and a bachelor of ...

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Demetrios Panteleakis - Principal @ Icarian Real Estate Advisors | Crunchbase

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Demetrios Panteleakis - Principal @ Icarian Real Estate Advisors