Kid Wind Design Challenge

Team Name: The Funky Monkeys

Designed By: Trevor Spiegel Jordan Wilcox

5-8Coaches Name: Pamela Urbanek Childs

Email Address: PUrbanekChilds@clarenceschools.orgClarence Middle School

http://challenge.kidwind.org/online

Our Team Tell us about your team: We are a boy girl team from Clarence Middle School. And we are trying our best to win this challenge. And make this world a better place by producing more energy and not pollute the world.

Design Brief Problem Statement: There is an energy problem the world as we know it might die from the pollution that we are creating. We will solve this problem by producing energy so you don’t have to use fossil fuels.

Design Statement: We are going to solve the problem by building turbines that will produce energy to help get rid of pollution.

Design Brief Constraints: Can Cannot

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

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• Lightweight• Have material

balsa coraplast cardboard tubes

• Have metal blades

• Have more than 12 blades

Blade Testing Round 1

Trial Number of Blades Tilt Degree Volts Produced Gears Wind Speed

1 2 30 0.00 yes

2 2 60 0.00 yes

3 2 70 0.04 yes

Blade Description: moon blades

Blade Material: coroplast

Blade Length (cm):20.32

Blade Testing Round 2

Blade Description: Egg Blades

Blade Material: cereal box

Trial Number of Blades Tilt Degree Volts Produced Gears Wind Speed

1 3 30 2.39 yes

2 3 30 2.20 yes

3 3 35 1.78 yes

Blade Length (cm):

Our Best Test Number of Blades:3

Geared or Direct Drive: gears

Generator Used : KidWind Wind Turbine GeneratorPhoto of Turbine

Our Best Test Wind Speed:

Blade Length:

Resistor Value: 54 ohms

Turbine Rotor Swept Area:

Turbine Voltage: