A lesson blowing in the wind for RCS

High School students are finding their latest lesson is blowing in the wind.

In a new lesson on alternative energy sources, students in Mike Fisher’s technology class spent a month designing and constructing vehicles powered by wind.

Today and tomorrow those students will present their designs to fellow students with a thesis and argument on why their design will work best.

On Thursday and Friday, the students will test their wind-powered boats in a man-made pond in the classroom.

Fisher said the students’ projects will be graded based on performance, design and aesthetics.

The students recently created solar cells as another alternative fuel source.