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Wind for Schools Program Blows into Virginia

by
Remy

Looking for a student centered learning project for your school? How about learning about wind energy by installing a wind turbine at your school? Through the new Wind for Schools Program at James Madison University schools can apply to have a small wind turbine installed on their campus as a learning tool.

Not only will your school get to have state-of-the-art technology for generating clean energy, but teachers will be trained on energy education and receive hands-on curricula and kits to use in the classroom that bring the wind turbine into the classroom through interactive and interschool wind-related research tasks. Materials from many curricula are used and samples of activities and links to full curricula can be found online.

JMU will be hosting a State Wind Symposium June 16th and 17th. As part of this Symposium there will be a National Energy Education Development (NEED) teacher workshop on wind energy and an informational session for teachers or school administrators that are interested in finding out more about this program.

If your school is interested in participating in the program or any of these upcoming events please contact Remy Luerssen at luerssrm@jmu.edu or 540-568-8768 for more information.

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