Resources for Teachers & Teams

 

Additional information for competition day:

• Schedule
• Transportation and Maps *note location change for 2010, Toyota Commuter Challenge
• Registration Desk *note location change for 2010
• Machine Shop
• Accommodation
• KidWind Teacher and Student Workshops

Contest Resources:

• Wind speed generated by some household items
• Picture of the internal cross sectional dimension of the wind tunnel
• Picture of the wind tunnel side entrance
• Picture of the wind tunnel side entrance (different view)
• Pictures of the 7/16 inch bolt available for securing your windmill design
• Video of the wind tunnel
• Video of the wind tunnel side entrance and a small windmill operating inside

Class lessons & wind energy background information:

• Kid Wind Classroom lessons
  • Gear Ratios
  • Multimeters
    
    
• Wind with Miller
  
  
• Danish Wind Industry Association
  

Canadian Wind Energy information:

• A Brief History of Wind Power Development in Canada 1960s-1990s by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa
  Wind tubine history - Canada Science and Technology Museum
• Canadian Wind Energy Association
• Ontario's Integrated Power System Plan
• RETScreen International Clean Energy Decision Support Centre
• Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative
• University of Guelph's Physical Resources Sustainability Office