architectures. I have accepted 14 of the engagements. The consulting work has become, by my own quiet assessment, the most professionally interesting work I have done since retiring from Los Alamos in 2017. The consulting income has funded the establishment of the Cunningham Solar Education Foundation, which I incorporated as a New Mexico non-profit in April.
The foundation provides small grants to rural New Mexico high schools for off-grid solar curriculum development. The first 10 grants were awarded in October. The Cunningham Solar Education Foundation board includes Sigrid, Edith, Maren Halverson in her personal capacity, not her regulatory role, and a retired Albuquerque solar industry executive named Ulrika Whitford. The foundation has, as of this writing, awarded 23 grants to rural New Mexico high schools across the past year, totaling $146,000. The grants fund off-grid solar curriculum development, technical training equipment for vocational programs, and small student-led demonstration arrays.
The first 10 grants in October went to schools in Sandoval, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, McKinley, and Cibola counties. The second cohort of 13 grants in April reached schools in San Juan, Rio Arriba, Taos, Mora, San Miguel, Otero, Chaves, Eddy, Lea, and Lincoln counties. The foundation's geographic reach now covers approximately 70% of rural New Mexico. The first measurable outcome, three students from the Sandoval County program enrolling in the New Mexico State University electrical engineering program for the fall semester, was reported in the Albuquerque Journal in May. The article was titled "Three Sandoval Students Choose Solar."
Sigrid cried when she read it. I cried, too. The foundation is, by every measure that matters to us, the most important work either of us has done in our retirement. Edith and Inga have begun working on a peer-reviewed journal article about the case for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. The article is co-authored with two of Edith's Sandia colleagues.
The article documents the technical details of the inverter voltage modulation, the engineering analysis of the impact on the unauthorized electric vehicle charging system, and the regulatory framework that authorized the response. The article will be published in March of next year. The article is, by Edith's careful assessment, the first published academic paper documenting an authorized electrical engineering response to off-grid solar electricity theft. The paper will be cited in future regulatory frameworks. Edith has invited me to be a co-author.
I have accepted. We will sign the paper with the same family signature Edith and I have used on every joint engineering document since she was 12. O. Cunningham and E. Cunningham, Cunningham Engineering Associates.
Sigrid has begun a new printmaking project at her home studio focused on the visual aesthetics of grid-tie solar arrays. The project will result in a small gallery show at the New Mexico Museum of Art in October, a quiet collaboration with her former colleagues there. The show will be titled The Geometry of Sunlight. Sigrid is producing 40 large-format intaglio prints of solar array configurations from across the southwestern United States. The prints are beautiful.
I have offered to be technical consultant. Sigrid has thanked me politely and told me she would prefer to handle the project independently. She has, by her own quiet description across 42 years of marriage, no need for an electrical engineer to explain her art. I have agreed. The IEEE Spectrum syndicated article had an unexpected outcome in October.