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Colin Pischke of Lethbridge College and organizer of the KidWind Challenge with Councillors Bev Esslinger and Michael Walters and Dean Holloway, Regional VP of the Bank of Montreal.
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Dean Holloway, of the Bank of Montreal watches (left) as the judges: Joey Hundert, Brandy Burdeniuk, Daniel Visser, Darren McCrank and Jason Edworthy evaluate the student entries at the KidWind Challenge held at City Hall in Edmonton.
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Arron Dublenko a teacher from Queen Elizabeth High School snaps a shot of a student with the wind tunnel at the KidWind Challenge in Edmonton.
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Malek Hatamleh and Akeel Khan of Team SLISE from Queen Elizabeth High School make last minute adjustments to their wind turbine in the KidWind Challenge.
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Team Titanics checking out photos with teacher Kevin Falcone at the KidWind Challenge held at City Hall in Edmonton.
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Team Tornado from Hairy Ainlay High School watching the test of their winning wind turbine design at the KidWind Challenge at City Hall in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Team Tornado tried two designs, their winning design and this wind turbine modelled after the pinwheel. It worked, but not as well as their winning design in the KidWind Challenge.
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Team Tornado from Hairy Ainlay High School making adjustments to their wind turbine designed after a pinwheel.
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Team Tornado getting set to test their pinwheel design in the KidWind Challenge at City Hall in Edmonton.
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Crossing her fingers, a member of Team Tornado from Hairy Ainlay High School watches the test of one of their wind turbine designs in the KidWind Challenge.
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Tweaking the position is allowed for the first 15 seconds when students' designs are tested to in a wind tunnel to see how much wind is produced by the design.
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The judges at the KidWind Challenge hosted by Lethbridge College listen to a student from Queen Elizabeth High School explain her work designing a wind turbine.
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Akeel Kahn and Malek Hatamleh explain the theory and the design behind their wind turbine to the judges at the KidWind Challenge held at City Hall in Edmonton.
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Akeel Kahn explains why he and project partner Malek Hatamleh chose balsa wood as the material for their model wind turbine.
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Akeel Kahn and Malek Hatamleh with their balsa wood wind turbine, the second place design at the KidWind Challenge in Edmonton.
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The colourful wind turbine entry from Team Titanic from Hairy Ainlay High School at the KidWInd Challenge in Edmonton.
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Team Aneesh and Tyson explain the design of their wind turbine to a pioneer of Alberta's Wind industry, Jason Edworthy who built some of the first wind farms in Alberta.
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Team Aneesh and Tyson of J. Percy Page High School created a wind turbine with a lot of surface area that managed to produce good electricity, but was slowed down when the blades began hitting the turbine's tower under the pressure of the wind tunnel.
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Ben Lilly of Team Murica from Queen Elizabeth High School endures the blast from the fans as he tweaks his wind turbine design being tested in the wind tunnel.
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Team Aneesh and Tyson move their model wind turbine into the wind tunnel for testing at the KidWind Challenge in Edmonton.
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Aneesh and Tyson Usman of J. Percy Page High School testing their wind turbine in the wind tunnel in the KidWind Challenge at City Hall in Edmonton.
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Team Tornado from Hairy Ainlay High School in Edmonton describing their project to the judges at the KidWind Challenge in Edmonton. The team’s knew their stuff and their design won the challenge.
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Team SLISE from Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton testing their wind turbine in the wind tunnel. The students two-blade wind turbine was made of balsa wood and had sophisticated gearing that helped produce the second highest amount of electricity in
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Team Tornado from Hairy Ainlay High School came to the KidWind Challenge with a display and thanks to their research and design produced the best wind turbine at the challenge.
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Team Titanics from Hairy Ainlay High School with their colouful wind turbine made out of corregated cardboard.
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Team Tornado from Hairy Ainlay High School celebrating their win as their custom designed wind turbine cranked out the most power at the KidWind Challenge at City Hall in Edmonton, Alberta.