Experiment with alternative energy with the PicoTurbine Windmill Kit
Build and Experiment with a Unique
Wind Turbine
Age 10 thru College - Some adult supervision for 5th and 6th graders.
Assembled PicoTurbine
Note, this kit comes unassembled. You build the windmill.
$39.95
This kit has been used by 1000s of students, home schoolers, and even adult
hobbiests to learn about wind power and do energy science fair projects.
It's been used by major universities such as MIT and Caltech, as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for summer youth programs.
It's perfect for energy science fair projects, science reports, or just plain fun!
Did you know that wind power and hydro-electric power are currently the only alternative energy sources that are clearly
competitive in cost with fossil fuel electricity generation.
Experience the power of wind as a renewable energy resource.
With the PicoTurbine Windmill Kit will build
a fully functioning, electricity-producing scale model of a Savonius vertical axis wind turbine. This basic kit is perfect of 5th graders.
For more advanced 5th 6th grade students as well as 7th thru college students, we suggest you look at the PicoTurbine Windmill and DC Experiments Kit on the discount packages for wind turbine experiments kits. 7th grade and above kids are expected to preform more advanced type experiments that cannot be provided by just the windmill.
Standing 8 inches tall, it produces between 1.7 and 2.5 volts, enough to light up a bicolor LED
(included) that flashes red and green to show the alternating current produced.
The kit can be easily built in under one hour, less time if used as a group project.
Children as young as 10 years old can build the project with some adult supervision.
PicoTurbine is the only kit of its kind to demonstrate the power of
wind as a renewable energy resource. The instructor's guide contains classroom ideas and experiments,
as well as technical notes for older children or adult experimenters.
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PicoTurbine Windmill Science Fair Projects - Experiments
Test different wind turbine blade configurations, various generator components,
the effects of changing wind speeds.
The blades can be made from various materials such as plastic bottles, alumimum cans (parent supervision), heavy cardboard, or other materials.
Four strong magnets (ceramic grade 5 1"x1.75"x0.25")
Approximately 400 feet of 28 AWG magnet wire, pre-wound into four coils. This saves about 30 minutes from typical project build time over wrapping your own!
two feet of 10 gauge aluminum wire for the yoke
One bi-color LED (red and green)
A piece of wooden dowel 8 inches long used as the axel.
A 5" by 8" piece of plywood used as a base for the project.
Note, this kit comes unassembled. 
