2009 State Farm Service-Learning Champion Award Recipient

Malala Pou
Advocate and Benefactor of the
Evergreen Public School District Biodiesel Project
President of FuelOnly
Vancouver, Washington

Malala Pou, President of FuelOnly was born in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.  He moved to the mainland and grew up attending the public school system of Vancouver Washington.  With his roots in the environmentally conscious North West, Malala created the opportunity to match his experience in the petroleum industry with the need for specialized research and development of alternative fuels.  As FuelOnly was established as a leading voice in the quality control of the developing international biodiesel community, Malala learned of the Biodiesel research being conducted by the students within Evergreen School District – Malala’s early school alma mater. The Evergreen School District Biodiesel project was progressing into a fully integrated production to application course-work.  FuelOnly attended presentations by the students involved in this service-learning coursework and was impressed by the strides they had taken to use the waste cook-oil from the school district and converting it into an alternative fuel being actively used for vehicle application.  The research team and the chemists of FuelOnly donated their time with the students to bring the newest of biodiesel development to their project. The FuelOnly mission of bettering our global community advanced in our own back yard as we were able to donate thousands of dollars in quality control laboratory biodiesel testing to the students as they developed their product.  Not satisfied with this, FuelOnly donated a trailer for their portable biodiesel production technology and then used our connections within the Biodiesel community to supply the Evergreen School District with additional needed equipment to increase their production efficiency.  Malala led the way, donating his expertise and energy to empower the students and enhance their service-learning achievements.

State Farm Service-Learning Champion Award

2010 State Farm Service-Learning Champion Award

State Farm Service-Learning Champion Award Recipients from Prior Years