The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is encouraging 6th to 12th grade American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students to create real-world energy solutions. According to AISES, the annual Energy Challenge allows many questions to be answered.
The press release says questions include how much energy we use, ways that energy can be generated, transported, and stored; what improvements can be made, and how to reduce wastage. Students who participate will work through a two-part process to create solutions for their Energy Challenge: identifying an energy-related problem that directly affects them and/or their community, and creating possible solutions using creative, hands-on, problem solving, engineering processes.
In previous Energy Challenge solutions for students’ communities, Joshua Parker used water flow in Hawaiian fishponds to generate energy. Tre’ Bybee, Tamahsat Blackeagle, Ciahna Oatman, and Omari Mitchell created a solar energy pumping system that circulated water through a biomass composter and delivered water at a rate and temperature that kept livestock water in an outside tank from freezing.
Solution proposals are due by February 18. Projects are judged in two phases with winners announced at the AISES National Conference. Click here for more information.
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