EnergyWhiz

Hosted in Cocoa, FL at FSEC, EnergyWhiz is an exciting once-a-year gathering of students participating in fun educational competitions.

Register as many teams as you want for $10 each (in the store), they all have a chance to win design awards, but we may have to limit the number of teams who compete at EnergyWhiz to 3 based on the overall number of teams enrolled per competition.

If registration fees are a hardship, please contact Susan@fsec.ucf.edu

Competitions	K-2	3-5	4-6	6-8	7-8	9-12	Team Size	Rules
Critter Comfort Cottage		✅		✅		✅	2-6	CCC Rules
Energy Inspired Art	✅	✅		✅		✅	1-6	EIA Rules
Junior Solar Sprint			✅		✅		2-4	JSS Rules
Solar Energy Cook-Off		✅		✅		✅	2-6	SECO Rules

September 1, 2023

Enrollment Opens

$10 per team

April 3, 2024, 3:00 PM

3:00 PM
Project Webpage Due
& Fees Paid

Your project webpages must be finished by 3PM on this day.
Enrollment fees must be paid by 3PM.

April 5, 2024

Design Judging Begins

Using the completed project websites, Judges grade projects based on design criteria.

April 11, 2024

Project Feedback to Teachers & Coaches

Based on the design judges, feedback is provided to teachers and coaches, allowing students to improve their physical projects and help to decide which teams should compete at EnergyWhiz.

April 17, 2024, 3:00 PM

3:00 PM
Teachers & Coaches Confirm Which Teams Will Compete at EnergyWhiz

By 3PM the teams that will be competing at EnergyWhiz must be confirmed.

April 20, 2024

EnergyWhiz

8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
FSEC
1679 Clearlake Road
Cocoa, FL 32922

Critter Comfort Cottage

The Critter Comfort Cottage (CCC) competition is a real-world engineering and communications challenge. Students use green building design and construction techniques to create an energy-efficient, cost-effective, comfortable “home” for a critter. Teams must also create a marketing plan that describes the features and benefits of their comfort cottage for the critter they have selected.

Energy Inspired Art

Energy Inspired Art (EIA) is a competition where the objective is to create a work of art that is inspired by an aspect of renewable energy, energy efficiency and/or climate science. Any art media, technique, visual, performance, musical or literary art may be submitted.

Junior Solar Sprint

In the Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) competition, students build a model size solar electric car. This event challenges students to use their science, creative thinking, and teamwork skills.

More info:
JSS video
AEOP JSS
NREL JSS
TSA JSS

Supplemental classroom/team activities to aid team design decisions:
Student activities
JSS Teacher/coach pages

Solar Car kits, which include a 3V solar panel and an electric motor, can be bought from:
Solar Made
Pitsco

Solar Energy Cook-Off

Students design and building a solar thermal “oven” to cook their own tasty creations. These are then presented to a panel of judges. Students compete for best solar cooker design, as well as a culinary award.