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Northern Arizona’s KidWind Challenges
Check out the Stem City blog written about our recent event and images of the competitions on our news site!
Northern Arizona University is home to Arizona’s Wind for Schools Project. This project, supported by the United States Department of Energy, allows states to support K-12 schools and community colleges in the process of installing small wind turbines and implementing wind energy curriculum. To learn more about the Wind for Schools Program and its nationwide impact, visit their interactive website.
Wind for Schools provides support to rural schools for the installation of anemometer equipment or small wind turbines. Wind for Schools staff members help school districts through the process of permitting and installing this equipment at selected schools, and provide ongoing technical support for the installations. Check out the data given directly from the small wind turbines provided by the Wind for Schools’s portal, OpenEI.
The Arizona Wind for Schools project is supported by a federal grant from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Since 2010, the program has had many accomplishments, including the installation of wind turbines! See our total impact in the table below, as well as the locations of all the installations on the map of Arizona. For more news highlights and recent updates of Wind for Schools , check out our news page.
| Program area | Impacts |
|---|---|
| Schools worked with and visited | 39 |
| Wind Turbines Installed | 18 |
| Weather Station Installed | 1 |
| PV Arrays Installed | 3 |
| Participation at special public events or events at NAU | 2657 |
| Students employed at NAU or official program volunteers for NAU credit | 24 |
| NAU students in wind-related classes | 517 |
| Presentations/special projects in NAU classes | 32 |
| Students at presentations/projects in NAU classes | 706 |
| K-12 students impacted by direct education activities | 2846 |
| Teacher workshops | 22 |
| Teachers trained at workshops | 306 |
| Media coverage (print, radio, TV) | 46 stories |
| Total program funding obtained | $799,000 |
In November 2011, Wind for Schools installed our first Skystream turbine next to the Applied Research and Development building. It supplies renewable energy to the LEED-Platinum certified building. View the time lapse video below to watch the installation process. You may also watch the corresponding interview by Green NAU.
Our partners
Our partners include regional utilities, Native American tribes, business and non-profit organizations, school districts, and members of the renewable energy and energy efficiency manufacturing and development industries.
For more information about the Wind for Schools program, contact Karin Wadsack, Project Director, at 928-523-0715 or Karin.Wadsack@nau.edu.