Mike Rathbone

Mike spoke to us yesterday about solar power.  We specifically looked at our solar panels and saw proteins and electrons getting excited and causing energy.  We were able to see how we are getting on through the splash monitoring. We looked at how LED lighting worked.  He also spoke to us about saving energy by not leaving technology on standby.  Quite a few students are keen to do more investigating!

Dugald Morrison, Engineering Manager, Contact Energy

Thanks to Josh Hill who suggested we contact Dugald - he was great!

Mr Prichard from MBIE

Was our first speaker on energy

He spoke to us about how electricity gets from the South Island up to the North.  Mainly up to Auckland.

Guest speakers

We have been fortunate to have Wellington Electricity (Wayne was the main speaker, with support from Phil) come in to talk with us.

Week 3 - renewable energy

Now we have had a chance to look at where and how we use energy in the home and school... check out what Germany is doing...

"On Sunday, Germany’s impressive streak of renewable energy milestones continued, with renewable energy generation surging to a record portion — nearly 75 percent — of the country’s overall electricity demand by midday. With wind and solar in particular filling such a huge portion of the country’s power demand, electricity prices actually dipped into the negative for much of the afternoon, according to Renewables International."

 What is our potential??  Week 3 focus - on renewable energy and more possibilities.

Do the solar panels really make a difference? Lets continue being energy detectives!

We will be learning more about energy over the week. 

Watch this video before class so you can start thinking about Energy!

Welcome back to T2 everybody

Welcome back! We start this week with Tech from 8.45 to 12.30 every day, Monday through to Friday. Next week Monday we will kick off with our normal school programme: homework, cross country running, maths, reading and writing, and our fab ENERGY unit. Week three we have our 3-way conferences Monday, Tuesday and Thursday :) Looking forward to seeing you all there. :)