Let Us Cook
Event Location: Cocoa-FL
Competition: Solar Energy Cook-Off
Division: 3-5
School: Osceola Science Charter School
Team Name: Let Us Cook
Project Name: Solar Oven
Team Size: 4
2nd Graders – Emmanuel S., Feras J., Kaleb C., William D.
Let Us Cook Solar Energy Cook-Off Team consist of four 2nd graders from Osceola Science Charter School. Our school has competed in the past. We have selected the solar oven as we have a little experience in it and we want to improve it. This will be our team’s 1st year participating in the event. We hope our Solar Power Oven will make snacks for all to enjoy.
- Team’s 1st year participating in this event
- Osceola Science Charter School has previously competed in school and at Energy Whiz
– Our team, Let Us Cook, has an international background
– Parents assist for directions and safety
– Use of scissors, uploads on the webpage
Completed Test Cooker
1st test with food thermometer
2nd test with Digital Infrared Thermometer
Design Drawings:
- List of Parts:
Recycled Box
Black Construction Paper
Aluminum Foil
Plastic Wrap
Scissors
Tape
Wooden Stick
Recipes:
Test 1
1st Test April 2nd, 2025
- Weather 85 degrees, sunny with few clouds
- Solar Oven 101 degrees
- Cooked at 10 minutes
– Graham cracker, chocolate, marshmallow
– Flatbread, tomato sauce, cheese
Test 2 – Test Solar Oven
April 6, 2025 We re-created another solar oven
Weather 75 degrees, sunny and windy day, the oven was 91 degrees at the start
10 minutes the oven was 93 degrees then at 20 minutes it rose to 117 degrees
30 minutes the weather was 84 degrees while the oven reached our highest at 127 degrees
Everyone worked together in creating the Solar Oven and preparing the food. The Solar Oven works by trapping the sun’s energy to cook the food. The sunshine reflects off the lid and shines into the oven.
- Sunlight Collection: Solar ovens uses the reflective materials, aluminum foil or mirrors, to gather and focus sunlight into a box.
- Heat Absorption: The focused sunlight shines onto a dark surface inside the box, our black Construction paper, which absorbs the light energy and converts it into heat.
- Heat Trapping: The box, with a transparent lid, made from the plastic wrap, helps to trap the heat inside, preventing it from escaping and allowing the food to cook.
- Cooking: The heat from the dark surface is transferred to the food, cooking it.
Videos:
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Way to go kiddos!! Good job 👏
Todày they are just kids with great imaginations improved by events supported by institutions like EnergyWhiz.
Tomorrow they will be the visionaries that will change lives.
Wow! Amazing kids working together as a team using their imaginations to create. So impressed with these boys.
I love your oven! It is great to see you all working together in the pictures. Well done and see you at the event!
Awesome design and creativity! Really like that you attempted multiple times with multiple items. Happy to see the whole team involved and working together to achieve better results.
Great team name as well!
That’s amazing work! You all did such a fantastic job building a solar oven..
working together to make something so cool and eco friendly ,keep it up guys
This is looks awesome. Those kids did a great job working together.
So proud of each one of you.
What a smart eco-friendly choice to conserve energy and reduce waste!! Great way to lower environmental impact Lil chefs 🤗
Those small scientists should be proud of themselves to be selected from their entire grade classes to perform this unique experience.you did great boys. So proud of you, definitely more to come ☺️
Great design and teamwork. Good job on your video presentations. Looking forward for some pizza and s’mores!
Amazing job!!!
Great collaboration! Love to see kids out exploring and learning and not behind a tablet and cell phone!
Great job on trying something new and competing against older kids!
good use of recycled materials. look forward to see how your cooker performs
I love the Web page It’s so creative and decorated and I’m so happy that the food looks delicious could I have some? Anyway keep up the good work!
Nice web page. Solid cooker design. Glad you gave some discussion of how the cooker works and had test data. One video with everyone presenting parts of the project would be an improvement over multiple short videos with no information regarding the cooker.