In March, we received a letter from 6th grader, Austin L., requesting information and materials to support his project on energy conservation at the City Science Fair in the Tidewater area of Virginia.
Austin was the only 6th grader and one of only two students from his school to be chosen to participate in the fair. His project entitled “The Effect of Common Electrical Household Items on Your Electric Bill” helped educate both students and parents on how consumers can save energy (and money!) by conserving around the home.
Our youngest ambassador to date represented us well by having the only energy conservation-related project in his category.
Way to go Austin!
Austin was the only 6th grader and one of only two students from his school to be chosen to participate in the fair. His project entitled “The Effect of Common Electrical Household Items on Your Electric Bill” helped educate both students and parents on how consumers can save energy (and money!) by conserving around the home.
Our youngest ambassador to date represented us well by having the only energy conservation-related project in his category.
Way to go Austin!
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Wow, i am on a world wide site. YES!!
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Way to go Austin! You are an inspiration to us all. Thanks for your hard work!
Austin did a wonderful job. We are very proud of him.
how did you come up with this thougth/idea? and how could i maybe work off of this and take an idea of energy/electricity conservation for a science fair i am in?
It’s great that you are also interested in doing a science project that will help others learn about energy and particularly energy efficiency.
You can take a similar approach to Austin, and analyze the energy that certain appliances use around the home. It would be neat to figure out how much “phantom load” is in your home.
We like to encourage the use of energy efficient light bulbs, CFL’s. What some folks may not know is that 90% of the energy used by an incandescent is emitted as heat. So you can do both a heat and kilowatt energy savings comparison between CFL’s and incandescent.
Another idea could be to show the effects that shade has on cooling a home. Rig up a ‘home’ box and place a plant in front with a lamp. Shine the lamp and notice that the lamp will get hot but the plant is shading the home and the temperature inside the home doesn’t increase.
Or what about building a solar oven from old pizza boxes? This could be good if you are looking at renewable energy sources.
There is a really great site by NEED with other ideas too: http://www.need.org/energyfair.php
Good luck with your project and let us know how you do!
well anonymous source my dad and i were in the car one day talking about random stuff and that subject was brought u. a few months later the science fair came up and it seamed like a perfect topic considering we should save all the enrgy we have. Ways you could work off this are you could test batterie pawered items but one of them use chargable batteries. also you could use different items and use some that say they are"energy efficiant" i hoped this helped and hope to se you reply soon.
Good project Austin keep it up and your post was also good.
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