KidWind challenge
<p>Wind power and renewable energy science in Idaho.</p>
Hannah Jenkins, left, and Jake Tsadilas, students in science teacher Jean Robinson's eighth-grade Earth science class at Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy participated in KidWind, a statewide wind harnessing challenge that began last week and ended Monday.
Students from eight Idaho schools worked on a series of wind energy challenges, designing blades to put on a turbine. The students competed to see which design would generate the most voltage and which could lift the most weight.
The top voltage generated was 2.62 volts, and the weight challenge winners lifted 1,454.4 grams, the equivalent of 101 washers.