ENERGY TRANSFORMATION & ELECTRICITY GENERATION

Where: Branham High School

When: 03/14/24, Thursday, 3:15pm-5:15pm

Teacher: Kristen Abels, PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University

Ever wonder how we take the potential energy stored in everything from fuels to water stored in a dam and convert it to the electrical energy we use to power our daily lives? While burning fuels like natural gas and coal to make electricity may seem very different than using hydro or wind power, all these methods of electricity generation rely on a central piece of the electricity generation puzzle: the electric generator. Following our last workshop on the electricity grid, we’ll learn how an electric generator provides useful energy to the grid in this workshop, and we’ll build an electric generator for ourselves!