Students Get A Charge From KidWind Challenge

Teams Create Working, Scale-Model Turbines For Competition

Posted: March 18, 2013

By EMILY SHARRER

Judges from the 2013 KidWind Challenge talk to eighth-graders from Kenmore Middle School in Arlington on team Makerbot about their windmill Saturday at Thomas Harrison Middle School. Teams from around the state participated in the competition. (Photos by Jason Lenhart)
Dyric Limanek, a senior at Spotsylvania High School, hooks his team’s wind turbine up to monitors before a wind test during the 2013 KidWind Challenge on Saturday at Thomas Harrison Middle School. The event was part of the larger Virginia Wind Festival.

HARRISONBURG — As wind whipped around in circles inside a recently installed turbine at Thomas Harrison Middle School on Saturday afternoon, a similar scene was unfolding within the school,...



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