Powering the Future of Clean Energy

KidWind sponsors facilitate the development of new tools and materials for students and educators, bringing clean energy education into classrooms across the U.S., and connecting with communities where they work.

Current Programming & Initiatives

KidWind sponsors support educators and students in learning more about clean energy. Choose your level of support below.

Teacher Training

These programs focus on helping educators and the public better understand clean energy.

Workshop Facilitation

$300 per Teacher
Send one teacher to a virtual or in-person clean energy workshops
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REcharge Academy

$3,500
Send one teacher to the annual REcharge Academy, our four-day long flagship educator training program focused on clean energy.
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Spark Sessions

$10,000
Become the solo sponsor of our monthly webinar series where we deep dive into one aspect of clean energy to help grow teacher’s knowledge.
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KidWind Challenges

These programs focus on our flagship student-driven solar and wind structure design challenges.

Online Challenge

$10,000
Sponsor either the Solar Online Challenge or the Wind Online Challenge to help us sustain this dimension of our KidWind Challenge programming.
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In Person Events

$15,000
Support a regional KidWind Challenge event including site-based costs, event facilitation, material costs, and team prizes.
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Loaner Tunnels

$5,000
Help us build and maintain a loaner tunnel program that allows new sites to borrow a wind tunnel for their event

Tinker Time

$10,000
Become the solo sponsor of our monthly webinar series that deep dives into one element of turbine or solar structure building like generators or circuitry.

Worlds KidWind Challenge

These sponsorship opportunities are integral to our hosting of Worlds each year!

Title Sponsorship

$25,000
Become one of three premier Worlds sponsors
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Team Travel

$5,000
Help one team get to Worlds
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Space

$3,000
Sponsor one highly visible, and material intensive competition area like the Tool Tables or Wind Tunnels
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Events

$5,000
Help us celebrate the teams hard-work at one of the Worlds special events, like the Welcome Party, Joint Challenge, Awards Ceremony, or a Baseball Game!
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Sponsor Stories

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ENEL has been supporter of KidWind for over 10 years. Their funding has helped to build and maintain KidWind robust programs in Oklahoma and Texas as well as important curricular projects centered on women in clean energy.

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New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has partnered with KidWind to develop a comprehensive outreach program focused on helping students and teacher understand and explore offshore wind energy and the career opportunities that it will provide in the coming decades. This support has included sponsoring local workshops and regional KidWind Challenges, as well as funding to develop related activity guides for each grade band.
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Mortensen was one of two title sponsors for the 2024 World KidWind Challenge. Their support was critical in helping KidWind hold this massive event where over 800 students, parents and coaches convened to celebrate clean energy! As a thank you for this support, they were invited to speak at the welcome ceremony!
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SMUD sponsored one teacher to attend our 2024 REcharge Academy in Alaska to learn more about clean energy. Following this in-depth training, we are excited to help them plan and hold a workshop in the fall of 2024 and then KidWind Challenge in the spring of 2025!

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Mortensen was one of two title sponsors for the 2024 World KidWind Challenge. Their support was critical in helping KidWind hold this massive event where over 800 students, parents and coaches convened to celebrate clean energy! As a thank you for this support, they were invited to speak at the welcome ceremony!

Thanks to our 2023-2024 Sponsors!

Gale Force ($50,000+)

High Flyers ($25,000+)