45 student teams test their renewable energy creations in wind and waves at UMaine

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 13, 2022

A student renewable energy competition returned to the University of Maine on Friday after a two-year pandemic hiatus, challenging middle- and high-school students from across Maine to create floating platforms for wind turbines that could best withstand wind and waves. The students’ platforms in the annual Windstorm Challenge were tested in the wind-wave basin at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. Members of the winning high school team were awarded internships at the composites center.