Kid Wind Design Challenge
Team Name: The One-Legged Flamingo
Designed By: Gerald, Cameron, JD.
5-8
Coaches Name: Mr. Sean Murray
Email Address: SMurray@clarenceschools.org
Clarence Middle School
Our Team
Tell us about your team: We are a team of three sixth graders fromClarence Middle School. We are attempting to generate the mostelectricity using our wind turbines. We turned mechanical energy(wind) into electrical energy. The goal of this whole shebang is togenerate electricity without burning fossil fuels.
Design Brief
Problem Statement (What is the problem that your teacher has given you to solve?): Theproblem is that we are burning to many fossil fuels which releases to many carbon dioxide.(greenhouse gases) This is environmentally unfriendly.
Design Statement (How are you going to solve this problem? Include the process you aregoing to take to solve the given problem) : We are going to design wind turbines to generateelectricity so we don’t have to burn as much fossil fuels.
Design Brief
Constraints (What you can and cannotdo/use.):
• No metal blades.
•Weight constraint.
•Foam core board, balsa wood,Styrofoam, cardboard, etc…
•Length constraint
•18-20 inches maximum length
•Dowels could be used.
•Width constraint.
•Originally no hot glue(thatchanged)
Deliverables (What materials and items youneed to solve this problem)
•We had to create three differentdrawings of our wings.
•We needed foam core board,dowels, plastic hub, Kid Wind windtowers, voltage meter, fans, tapemeasure.
Constraint:
Light weightmaterial
Constraint:
Size
Constraint:
Widthconstraint
Constraint:
Dowellength
Constraint:
Total
Design 1
4
3
3
2
12
Design 2
4
4
3
4
15
Design 3
Design 4
Design 5
Design Table
Best 4 3 2 1 Worst
Ranking
Blade Testing Round 1
Trial
Number of Blades
Tilt Degree
Volts Produced
Gears
WindSpeed
1
4
20
1.78
yes
4
2
4
20
2.16
yes
3
3
4
20
2.26
yes
2.3
Blade Description: This is our slide design
Blade Material: Foam core board
Blade Length (cm): 37
Blade Testing Round 2
Blade Description: These are our midget blades.
Blade Material: Foam Core board
Trial
Number of Blades
Tilt Degree
Volts Produced
Gears
WindSpeed
1
3
15
4.54
yes
4
2
3
3
2.3
Blade Length (cm): 19 cm.
Our Best Test
Number of Blades:
Geared or Direct Drive:
Generator Used : KidWind Wind Turbine Generator
Photo of Turbine
Our Best Test
Wind Speed:
Blade Length:
Resistor Value: 54 ohms
Turbine Rotor Swept Area:
Turbine Voltage:
