BOONE, N.C. — Fourth grade student Lance Shepherd, a young admirer of science and technology who attends Audrey W. Garrett Elementary School in Mebane, had a chance encounter with Apperion — the premier solar car of Appalachian State University’s Team Sunergy — when the car was installed Monday in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Team Sunergy members Ethan Culberson, a junior sustainable technology major from Belews Creek, far left, Meredith Cuilla, a senior marketing major from Clayton, center, and Wyatt Bailey, a junior sustainable technology major from Burlington, pose with Appalachian solar vehicle Apperion at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.