We dedicated our efforts in Spring 2009 to crafting a 2 day workshop on renewable energy.
Target audience: middle school students.
Workshop Goals
- Appreciate diverse forms of energy and relate to everyday life experiences
- Kinetic: Motion, Sound, Heat, Electricity
- Potential: Chemical, Gravitational
- Understand advantages and disadvantages of sources of energy for modern society
- Fossil Fuels, Solar, Wind, Hydropower
- Experience hands-on construction of several electrical generators in team settings
- Fruit-based battery
- Solar cell
- Wind turbine
- Hydropower
- Cultivate basic skills and concepts in electrical engineering
- Interpret voltage, current and other measurements in real-world setting
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 Updating... Ċ Mike Hughes, Sep 14, 2009, 9:45 PM Ċ Mike Hughes, Sep 14, 2009, 9:51 PM
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