{"id":24414,"date":"2013-06-05T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=24414"},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:02:45","slug":"niu-valley-solar-cars-race-under-hot-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/niu-valley-solar-cars-race-under-hot-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Niu Valley Solar Cars Race Under Hot Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24415\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/06\/060513_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24415\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/06\/060513_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"060513_4\" width=\"650\" height=\"459\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/06\/060513_4.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/06\/060513_4.jpg?resize=450,318 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/06\/060513_4.jpg?resize=335,237 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">June Motokawa signals the race between Niu Valley\u2019s Julia Lefritz and Zi Jun Huang. Photo from HECO.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sun power and brain power were tested this spring at the annual Solar Sprint at Kapolei High School, where hundreds of seventh-and eighth-graders raced their handmade, model solar-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by a mini photovoltaic panel and a small electric motor, each entry had to travel a 20-meter course within 20 seconds &#8211; about 3 feet per second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gave them the basic vehicle parts and let them build it,&#8221; said Niu Valley Middle science teacher Darrah Brown of the self-directed team. &#8220;In this project they applied science principles, testing the product and adjusting the variables to make it work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of their &#8220;real&#8221; learning, students enjoyed bringing to life their designs for the lightweight, bare-frame racers. And the lesson (shhh!) was all about energy.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the DOE and Hawaiian Electric Co., the April 18 races also attracted teams from Kahuku High and Intermediate, Laie Elementary, Waipahu and Wheeler Intermediate and Kapolei Middle schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun power and brain power were tested this spring at the annual Solar Sprint at Kapolei High School, where hundreds..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east","category-east-oahu-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Niu Valley Solar Cars Race Under Hot Sun - MidWeek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/niu-valley-solar-cars-race-under-hot-sun\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Niu Valley Solar Cars Race Under Hot Sun - 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