Sunday, March 30, 2025
10:00am - 3:00pm EDT
Join JMU’s The Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Energy (CASE) and The Future Focus Foundation at Randolph College for a Regional Kidwind Renewable Energy Challenge on March 30th, 2025. This Kidwind Challenge is part of Randolph College’s SciFest, and will be open to SciFest visitors.
Please Note: This challenge will have only wind divisions competing!
On the day of the challenge, teams meet with a panel of expert judges to present their project design process, take a knowledge quiz to demonstrate their renewable energy expertise, and wind teams test their project for energy output in the Kidwind Wind Tunnel.
Check out CASE’s website for more details on how to be involved with this challenge!
When?
March 30th, 2025.
Where?
Randolph College- Michels Athletic Center (MAC)
What to bring/prepare:
- Lunch/Snacks: We recommend teams pack a lunch. There are food options available at SciFest, but we recommend packing a lunch as wait may be long for these options.
- A Profile Form filled out for each team
- Your project and accompanying documentation (any posters, notebooks, etc.)
- Cards/ board games/ books to stay entertained while waiting between judging
Parking: There is parking in front of the MAC center. Parking P10 on the parking Map: https://www.randolphcollege.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/01/campus_map.pdf
Wifi: Randolph Guest Wifi
Schedule: This is a tentative schedule to give you an idea of the day. A final schedule will be sent via email before the event.
| 9am-10am | Team arrive, check in, and can test their wind turbine without scoring in open tunnel testing | |
| 10am-10:20am | Welcome | |
| 10:20-10:45 | Team Knowledge Quiz | |
| 11:00-1:15 | Tunnel Testing– Wind teams must test their wind turbine in the tunnel at least once for an official score. Teams may test whenever during this time frame and as many times as they want.
Judge Interviews– Teams meet with judges according to the schedules below |
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| 1:15-2:15 | Lunch | |
| 2:30-3:00 | Award Ceremony |
Where We'll Be
Event Partners
James Madison University: Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Energy
