Our Tide held the very first student workshop in 2021and has held at least one workshop every year since. Most of these have been held at Clevedon Sailing Club but we have also held workshops in both Clevedon School and Nailsea School.
Along the way we have experimented with the format, from five half-days in one week, through separate sessions over several weeks to our current, ever-popular, workshop-in-a-day.
Feedback from our students
One thing I learned...
- The environmental impacts of tidal power
- How buoyancy is calculated
- About aerofoils and how lift works
- How tidal energy is dictated by geography
I'm still curious about...
- How quickly tidal power will be adopted
- Is it better to have a turbine on the sea floor or floating at the surface?
- How much power can be generated by the turbine
- Alternative energy from the sea
- Drag and the forces at play when an object moves through the water
The best thing we did was...
- Building the turbine model
- Creating the raft
- Making the demo tidal turbine
- Calculating the power in different locations
In the future I'd like to...
- Potentially get a job in engineering
- Study computer coding and music engineering
- Learn more about how tidal energy affects the environment
- Go and see a full scale tidal turbine which generates a huge amount of power
Thanks...
Many thanks to those who have sponsored our previous workshops:
- Clevedon Community bookshop
- Clevedon Town Council
And especial thanks goes to Aaron Fillery for his excellent video capturing the essence of the workshop!