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Wind Power Generation Competition

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Description

The Competition has three Divisions:

  1. Elementary School: Grade 1-5
  2. Middle School: Grade 6-8
  3. High School: Grade 9-12
  • Top 3 winners from each Division earn trophies.
  • Students/Teams may work on it as long as they like prior to the Official Measrement starts at 12:00 PM as mentioned in the Schedule
  • Here are the Event Rules. It is very important to read them to follow the guidelines and avoid possible penalty and disqualification.

Please help bring at least one Straight-body 2-liter soda bottle as descibed at this page below, if possible. We try to provide it, but we don't know how many we need.

Making a Wind Turbine: By using recyclable materials like 2-liter soda bottles, we may make blades and glued them on used CD, which is mounted/clipped on to a CD player motor - the generator. Voltage is measured when the turbine is setup in front of a running 20" box fan. There are different types of turbine designs. Characteristics like the number of blades, angle of attack, weight, etc. contribute to its performance, which is represented by the measured output voltage. There are many good resources online. Some of them are at the bottom of this page. The Top 3 teams generate the most Clean Electricity will take home trophies like the wining lineman teams also.

How the Wind Turbine is set up for measurement

Wind turbine setup

Based on your blade design, use scissors, ruler, tapes, sharpies, etc. to mark and cut out blades from recyclable bottles

2 liter soda bottles Protractor and rulers Glue gun Scissors Sharpies

Then using hot glue gun, glue the blades to CD to build a Wind Turbine. It is clipped on to a CD player motor, serves as generator, to generate clean electricity, when it spins by the 20" box fan.

CD on a motor
CD and motor side by side

Need any ideas & info? There are so many excellent resources online.

LADWP Wind Power related resources

Other Resources online

Thank you, to all of the vendors, who have participated in the past, your participation is very important to the Rodeo. It gives you, the vendors, the chance to meet with the people who use your products and at the same time it gives the users of your products the opportunity to give you feedback on tools and products. The Rodeo is advertised and open to the utilities in California and all those who are willing to travel; which also gives you the opportunity to meet and make new contacts.