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Build a Better Battery

Grapefruit battery

In Fruit Power we generated electricity with some lemons. Your challenge is to make a better battery based on fruits or vegetables.

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Energy

Designing an Energy-Efficient Building

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For this project you will design a building that uses energy as efficiently as possible.  Look at traditional buildings in your area for ideas on how to minimize energy use. 

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Energy

An Energy Playground

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People expend a lot of energy walking, running, riding bicycles and lifting things. In playgrounds children run around, climb, jump and move pieces of equipment like swings, see-saws and merry-go-rounds. Some people go to a gym where they lift weights, run on treadmills and ride bicycles that don’t go anywhere.

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  • Build a Solar Cooker

    Solar cooker

    Use the energy of the Sun to cook food… read more  

  • Fishing Game

    Fishing Game

    Can you be a successful fisherman while preserving the common fishing grounds for everyone?  read more  

  • Build a Better Battery

    Grapefruit battery(1)

    Our lemon batteries used zinc and copper as electrodes. You could try other metals. read more  

  • Design an Energy Efficient Building

    Students at Malaysia workshop building prototype

    For this project you will design a building that uses energy as efficiently as possible. Look at traditional buildings in your area for ideas on how to minimize energy use. read more  

  • An Energy Playground

    Energy-efficient playground in thailand

    People expend a lot of energy walking, running, riding bicycles and lifting things. What if all this energy could be harnessed to do work that is now being done by using conventional sources of energy? read more  

  • How Long Can an Ice Cube Last?

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    For this challenge, you will design an environment that will keep an ice cube from melting for as long as possible. read more  

  • Pot-in-Pot Refrigerator

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    Mohammed Bah Abba is from northern Nigeria. He won the 2001 Rolex Awards for Enterprise for his invention... read more  

  • Build a Solar Water Heater

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    Many designs for solar water heaters circulate water through a series of coiled or looped tubes in a collector box with a transparent cover facing the sun... read more  

  • Sun Tracker

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    In this activity, you will explore how to maximize the performance of a solar cell for the part of the world where you live... read more