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Winners & Prizes
Winners will receive cash prizes in each division (High School & Middle School).
First Place: $250
Second Place: $125
Third Place: $100
2010 Syracuse Challenge Winners
This was a really exciting Challenge! The winning high school team cranked out over 49,000 mWs with 4 giant blades and a 15:1 ratio gear assembly. The 2nd place middle school team put up a very impressive 41,000 mWs with 4 slightly smaller blades using an 8:1 gear ratio. (note - 1st place middle school was slightly lower with under 40,000 mWs, but took top prize with a very strong presentation.)
Middle School:
- 1st Place - St. John the Evangelist with 32,718 mWs (Higher presentation score put them over Oswego)
- 2nd Place - Oswego MS with 41,944 mWs
- 3rd Place - St John the Evangelist 1 with 19,229 mWs
- Special award to Newark Valley - 4th place for an AMAZING presentation
High School:
- 1st Place - Pulaski High School with 49,748 mWs!
- 2nd Place - Clarence High School with 39,720 mWs
- 3rd Place - P.V. Moore (Central Square) High School with 4866 mWs
2010 Buffalo Challenge Winners
Middle School:
- 1st Place - Team Red Devils 9 with 7332.5967 mWs,25 point judges score and overall score of 95
- 2nd Place - Team Red Devils 4 with 6196.5139 mWs, 25 point judges score and overall score of 84.15
- 3rd Place - Team Red Devils 10 with 6170.5733 mWs, 25 point judges score and overall score of 83.90
- Most promissing team effort that without winning - "Hard Luck Award" - Emmet Belknap with 3214 mWs in competition, but tested at over 9000 mWs after competition with a "backup" turbine - if Emmet Belknap had entered two teams or used the other turbine in competition, they could have won 1st place.
High School:
- 1st Place - Clarence Team Green with 35,347.2764 mWs, 26 point judges score and overall score of 96
- 2nd Place - Clarence Team "The Chopper" with 26,211.3160 mWs, 25 point judges score and overall score of 76.90
- 3rd Place - Starpoint - Matt Doyle - with 25,106.6785 mWs, 22 point judges score and overall score 71.72
- Grand Prize for overall best performing blades - Clarence - Team Green
Special Prizes:
WNY Wind Action Group - $100 Grand Prize Award "Team Green" -- Clarence High School
At this year's KidWind Challenge, the $100 prize from WAG for the best performing turbines in the event goes to "Team Green" from Clarence High School. This duo of Tech. Ed. students from the Energy and Power Class at CHS, under the guidance of instructor Ray Cooper, produced over 35,000 mWs over the course of a minute of testing. 2nd place was almost 10,000 mWs behind, with just over 26,000 mWs. Kids in the middle school managed an unofficial 9,000 mWs, and just over 7,000 mWs in competition.
WNY Sustainable Energy Assc. - $100 Hard Luck Award - Emmet Belknap Middle School Team
With minutes to go in the KidWind Challenge, Clarence Middle School had all but wrapped up 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in their division, with only one team left to test. Emmet Belknap had fielded a Tech Wars team for a robotic competition, then with barely a week to prepare decided to try their hand at the KidWind Challenge as well. They brought 3 kids to our event with 2 turbines, but rather than entering both turbines, they decided to maintain a single team and enter only one. The turbine they entered managed only about 3200 mili Watt seconds of electrical energy production, compared to the 7200 mWs that the winning team from Clarence Middle posted.
After the event concluded, Emmet Belknap asked if they could try their untested wind turbine, just to gain some practical experience. In the wind tunnel it produced over 9000 mWs, more than enough to beat Clarence Middle hands down. The kids from Emmet must have been crushed to see the $250 first place prize evaporate before their eyes, but they didn't let it show. Instead they congratulated each other on what might have been and held their heads high.
In an effort to keep these kids motivated and to minimize their disappointment of coming so close to winning, I presented them with an oversized check for a "hard-luck" award from the WNYSEA. I took a picture with the group and promised to send an actual check to their advisor, so he could cash it and use it to help the kids prepare for the next KidWind Challenge at Tech Wars South, to be held May 20th at ECC South. The kids were thrilled and Niels Anderson, their Tech Teacher and team advisor was overjoyed by your generosity. He vowed to come back and bring more kids to the next event.
Special thanks to the following sponsors for cash prizes:
Special thanks to Alex Sowyrda and Brad Weaver for their help at the event. Without them, it would have been chaos.
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