To WIND-finity and Beyond
Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba Story
Catching up with inventor William Kamkwamba
Inventor and author William Kamkwamba returns to the TED stage a decade after his TEDGlobal 2007 talk in which he spoke about building a windmill for his community at the age of 14. In conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, he shares with us where his dreams and accomplishments have taken him.
Read MoreWilliam Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill
William’s original TED talk when he was 19 years old. When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.
Read MoreThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (adult, young readers, and picture book versions)
The phenomenal story of William Kamkwamba who taught himself how to generate electricity using science and engineering and then designed and built his own wind turbine. Shares the harsh realities of famine when people do not have access to electricity and energy for pumping water to grow…
Read MoreEngineering Design Process STEM Challenge Work Mat
Designed by STEMAZing Teacher Leader, Danielle Swartz, this work mat allows students to work through the engineering design process as they use it for any STEM challenge.
Read MoreNC State Engineering Design Process
One of our favorite versions of the Engineering Design Process, especially the part of failure!
Read MoreVeritasium Video: How Does A Wing Actually Work?
NASA Bernoulli’s Principle – Museum in a Box
Be careful! Sometimes NASA is wrong. In this document, it claims air moving across the top and bottom of the wing must reach trailing edge of the wing at the same time. This is a very common misconception. See the How Things Fly document from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for the real…
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