Kid Wind Design Challenge

Team Name: The generators

Designed By: Nathan Wickenhiser

5-8Coaches Name: Pamela Urbanek Childs

Email Address: PUrbanekChilds@clarenceschools.orgClarence Middle School

http://challenge.kidwind.org/online

Our Team Our team is called the generators , our team is a 5-8 division, we are from Clarence middle school. Our team consists of a boy and a girl who are trying to create a blade design for a wind turbine that will generate the most amount of energy to power places in need of energy.

Design Brief Problem Statement: The problem we are trying to solve is designing a wind turbine blade to solve the worlds energy problem. We are creating a wind turbine that generates the most amount of energy.

Design Statement: I am going to create my blade out of balsa wood and cereal boxes, the balsa wood will be covered be the cardboard overtop of it. we are trying to create blades to produce the most amount of energy.

Constraints (What you can and cannot do/use.):

• Cardboard -metal• Cereal boxes - blades longer• Cora gated than 15 in.Plastic• Balsa wood

Design Brief Deliverables (What materials and items you need to solve this problem)

• balsa wood• Cardboard ( cereal box )

Can use cannot use

Blade Testing Round 1

Trial Number of Blades Tilt Degree Volts Produced Gears Wind Speed

1 3 10 1.67 yes

2 3 10 1.65 yes

3 3 15 2.58 yes

Blade Description: great grains blades

Blade Material: balsa wood, cereal boxes

Blade Length (cm): 41 ½

Blade Testing Round 2

Blade Description:

Blade Material:

Trial Number of Blades Tilt Degree Volts Produced Gears Wind Speed

1 4

2 3

3 2.3

Blade Length (cm):

Our Best Test Number of Blades:

Geared or Direct Drive:

Generator Used : Kid Wind Wind Turbine GeneratorPhoto of Turbine

Our Best Test Wind Speed:

Blade Length:

Resistor Value: 54 ohms

Turbine Rotor Swept Area:

Turbine Voltage: