Kid Wind Design Challenge

Team Name:THE BLADES

Designed By: Juan Giliforte and Mitchell law

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: Our team is from Clarence Middle school. We started out by creating the team name.(The blades) get it? the blades! This name is cool because of the wind turbine blades we made. Then we discussed about how many blades would work well and what materials. Then we designed our blades.Then we tested the blades at three different testing stations.

Design Brief Problem Statement (What is the problem that your teacher has given you to solve?):THE problem we need to solve is we need to find a way to use more renewable resources like wind, solar energy, and hydro electricity .NON reneable resources are running low and we don’t have enough of it.Also some examples are natural gas,coal,and oil.

Design Statement (How are you going to solve this problem? Include the process you are going to take to solve the given problem) : We can solve this problem by building a winterbine.We build the winterbine by using the proper materials or the blade.We will find the right design and how many blades we need to use for the winterbine.

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

• we cannot use metal• we can use cardboard• We can use balsa wood • We can use coraplast• We use up to twelve blades• It cant’t be longer than ten

inches

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

• We will use cardboard tubes• We will make six blades

Constraint:weight

Constraint: Cora plast

Constraint: cardboard

Constraint: strength

Constraint: tin Total

Design 12 3 3 2 4 14

Design 24 3 3 4 o 14

Design 33 2 4 3 4 16

Design 43 2 4 3 4 16

Design 52 3 3 2 4 14

Design Table

Best 4 3 2 1 Worst Ranking

Blade Testing Round 1

Trial Number of Blades Tilt Degree Volts Produced Gears Wind Speed

1 4 20 2.33 yes 4

2 4 20 1.99 yes 3

3 4 20 1.72 yes 2.3

Blade Description: pecil

Blade Material: cardboard

Blade Length (cm): 21.3

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:4

Geared or Direct Drive: Gear

Generator Used : KidWind Wind Turbine Generator

Photo of Turbine

Our Best Test Wind Speed:3

Blade Length:25.5

Resistor Value: 54 ohms

Turbine Rotor Swept Area: 2042.8

Turbine Voltage:2.33