Cypress
Where do we build and manufacture the turbine?
What is cypress?
How many sub team leads do we have?
What is 3?
Long before electricity, people used old-fashioned windmills to grind wheat into flour and pump this essential liquid.
What is water?
Solar power relies on the sun, while wind power relies on moving air; together, they are known as these types of energy.
What is renewable (or clean) energy?
Wind is simply moving this invisible mixture of gases that we breathe.
What is air?
How long does it typically take to get Cypress swipe access?
What is around two weeks?
How many executive board members (excluding sub-team leads) are there for the club?
What is 4?
If you look closely, a modern wind turbine looks a lot like a giant, high-tech version of this classic backyard spinning toy.
What is a pinwheel?
Because wind turbines don't burn fossil fuels, they do not release this type of greenhouse gas that traps heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide (or pollution)?
The uneven heating of the Earth's surface by this giant star creates wind in the first place.
What is the Sun?
What color tape marks the ground where we work?
What is yellow?
Where is our vice president/treasurer at the moment?
What is Madrid, Spain?
The blades of a wind turbine are shaped to catch the wind using the exact same lift principle used by these flying machines.
What are airplanes?
A single turn of a large, modern wind turbine can generate enough electricity to power an average home for this long!
What is a whole day (or 24 hours)?
This process happens when warm air rises into the sky and cooler air rushes in to replace it, creating a breeze.
What is convection (or air movement)?
To the nearest tenth, how many miles in between cypress and the Y?
What is 0.8 miles?
Who is our faculty advisor (first and last name)?
Who is James Baeder?
Some modern wind turbine blades are so massive that a single blade is actually longer than a football this.
What is a field?
When engineers build wind turbines out in the ocean where the ocean breezes are strongest, it is called this type of wind energy.
What is offshore wind?
Wind turbines are usually built in wide-open spaces or out in the ocean because the wind there is strong and this word meaning "without interruption."
What is steady (or consistent)?
What two clubs is our workspace positioned between at Cypress?
What is Leatherback Combat Robotics and Sat Dev?
What is Dr. Baeder's title in the aero department?
What is Sikorsky Chair?
Which European country famous for tulips and wooden shoes is historically known for its iconic classic windmills?
What is the Netherlands?
Energy stored in moving wind is called kinetic energy, but once the turbine turns it into power in wires, it becomes this type of energy.
What is electrical energy?
This weather instrument, shaped like tiny cups on a stick, spins to measure how fast the wind is blowing.
What is an anemometer?