Young scientists explore wind power!

Dozens of young scientists and their families built wind-turbine pinwheels at IEI's display center on Saturday, part of Maui Electric's Energy Fair.  These students were able to use their own pinwheel designs to harness energy from the wind!

Asia experiences IEI!

Our IEI team shared methods during a pilot project in Bangkok, and our Thai students love learning.

Harnessing the sun?

What variables affect the power we can take from sunlight with PV panels in series?  In parallel?  Our teachers learn for themselves (as scientists do) during our Oahu workshop on June 26-27.

Maui Teachers Modify Their Experiments

What variable will you choose to test?  Does your new data support our  hypothesis?  Teachers modify experiments to test variables and defend their results...

Tell your teaching friends: IEI workshops this summer!

Aloha all, please let your teaching friends know that we'll be offering full, 2-day Island Energy Inquiry workshops on Maui and Oahu over the summer break.  Please have a look at the flier, and get in touch with Denissa 808.270.6805 or Graham 808.270.6804. 

Compete, thanks to KidWind!

Our alert IEI teacher Carmen noticed an international competition that KidWind is sponsoring:

http://challenge.kidwind.org/online

Your students can form a team and send in their results for a KidWind turbine they design.  Carmen's team, "Team Gold" have entered next month's competition already.  Good luck!

A first light for the globe?

Our friend Charles Wang of Hawaii ECO Project has shared with us a working prototype of Panasonic's LED Lantern.  This self-contained system will use sunlight to directly charge a high-tech battery--storing enough energy for five hours of bright light or twenty at a reduced-light setting.  Many humans on our globe have never owned a light bulb, and this would be an amazing way for them to enjoy their first light!