Room 4's Solar Ovens

We have been trying our hand at harnessing the sun's mighty solar power! We had to come up with a solar oven design, and then assemble it. When we finally got a hot, sunny day we tried cooking marshmallows - yum!

Room 1 looking at temperature and different coloured materials

Whoops!

We've had a slight hiccup in our data! Unfortunately our tech guy unplugged the modem and we lost data over the holidays. Luckily all is well again!

Bill Nye the Science Guy - the sun

So just how much power are we generating?

We’ve had an AMAZING LAUNCH of our 16 solar panels and so far we have generated 43.39kWh of power. That’s as much as what is needed to run 19 computers for a whole day! - Not bad as we’ve just had the shortest day of the year.
You can see how much power we are generating here http://www.schoolgen.co.nz/schoolgen-schools/hampton-hill-wellington

Schoolgen launch

Katrina from Schoolgen has been working with us to get us ready for our exciting launch. Here is a link for the video of the launch 

Photos follow-

We are a Schoolgen school!

Hooray! We have become a 'schoolgen' school. Last December we submitted an application to Schoolgen to see if we were eligible for solar panels. The folk and Genesis liked our application and came down to visit us. They wanted to check we were doing what we said we were doing and if our school was suitable for solar panels. It turned out that our top block was just right (and they liked what we were doing)

So, we are now the proud owners of 16 photovoltaic solar panels! We are becoming so much more energy efficient creating our own power!

We have a team of kids who are our schoolgen team. To start with, they will keep a watch that classes are energy-efficient by turning off lights etc when not in the room. Hopefully they will do themselves out of a job soon!

Thanks so much to Maggie and Rob for selecting us!