C-WET promotes wind energy in India as a viable option for climate change. C-WET conducts and supports many programs to create awareness on wind energy among schools, colleges and public. As a part of wind energy promoting activities of C-WET, Global Wind Day is celebrated every year on June 15. This year C-WET has planned to celebrate Global Wind Day 2010 for wind energy promotion with events among school children and other stake holders. Wind energy inter school quiz competition, demonstration of renewable energy facilities available at C-WET to children and a special lecture by Dr. Y. E. A. Raj, DDGM, Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai marked this year’s Global Wind Day. The program was highly appreciated by the participants.
The Global Wind Day 2010 was celebrated at the Conference Hall, Centre for Wind Energy Technology, Chennai, India from 9.00 A.M to 5.00 P.M.
130 schools in and around Chennai were invited to participate in the Wind energy Quiz event of which 14 schools have registered to participate in the events. 36 students and 15 teachers from the schools had participated. Few industry people and staff of C-WET also participated in the eventful celebration.
The following table gives the list of schools participated in Global Wind Day 2010 celebration.
| Sl no | School Name |
| 1 | Sri Chakravarthy International Matriculation Academy, St. Thomas Mount, Chennai |
| 2 | P.S.Matriculation Higher Secondar School, Mylapore, Chennai |
| 3 | Smt. Ramkuwar Devi Fomra Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chrompet, Chennai |
| 4 | Corley Higher Secondary School, Tambaram, Chennai |
| 5 | Government Higher Secondary School, Pallikaranai, Chennai |
| 6 | St. John’s English School & Junior College |
| 7 | Anjuman Matriculation Higher Secondary School, T.Nagar, Chennai |
| 8 | Saraswathy Venkataraman Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai |
| 9 | Sri Seshadri Matric Higher Secondary School, Chrompet, Chennai |
| 10 | Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, K.K.Nagar, Chennai |
| 11 | St. Paul Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tambaram Sanatorium, Chennai |
| 12 | St.John’s International Residential School, Ponamalle, Chennai |
| 13 | St. Michael’s Academy, Adyar, Chennai |
| 14 | Bala Vidhya Mandhir Senior Secondary School, Adyar, Chennai |
Events
Wind Energy Quiz
A quiz competition was organized with an idea to create awareness among the school children and also to identify the basic knowledge of students on wind energy. The structure of the quiz competition was
| Round | Name of the round |
| Prelims | Screening Test |
| 1 | Objective Type |
| 2 | Yes or No |
| 3 | Dumb Charades |
| 4 | Write Your Points (Energy conservation at Home) |
| 5 | Rapid Fire Round |
A total of 14 schools, 5 teams were short-listed after the screening test
| 1 | Bala Vidhya Mandhir Senior Secondary School, Adyar, Chennai |
| 2 | St. Michael’s Academy, Adyar, Chennai |
| 3 | St.John’s International Residential School, Ponamallee, Chennai |
| 4 | Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, K.K.Nagar, Chennai |
| 5 | St. John’s English School & Junior College |
The winners after the final rounds were
| First Prize | Bala Vidhya Mandhir Senior Secondary School, Adyar, Chennai | Diya Naresh Rao |
| Siddarth Shrikanth | ||
| Second Prize | St.John’s International Residential School, Ponamallee, Chennai | Jason Christopher Jolly |
| Antony Raj James | ||
| Third Prize | St. John’s English School & Junior College | Deepak Suresh |
| Aakash |
During quiz, audience round was also organized and the winners were awarded
The prizes were distributed by Dr.Y.E.A. Raj, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, Chief Guest of the event.
The quiz programmes scorers were Shri. D. Lakshmanan, General Manager, C-WET, Shri. R. Sasikumar, Scientist, WRA, C-WET and Shri. David Solomon, Scientist, R&D, C-WET.
Seminar
Dr.Y.E.A.Raj, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai had delivered a lecture on “A Few Aspects of Surface Wind and some of its Climatological Features”. The seminar covered the basics on wind formation, atmospheric conditions, meteorological parameters, plotting model for weather parameters, Instruments used in wind measurements, Wind over India, storms and tornados, wind power harnessing, wind monitoring stations etc. and it was felt very resourceful by spectators.
C-WET Campus Tour
Students and teachers were taken a campus tour to the renewable energy systems / facilities available in C-WET. The following facilities were shown:
Global Wind Day ended with excellent & enthusiastic extemporary feedbacks from student participants, one of which is worth quoting here “I was very much motivated in wind energy and energy conservation today and I want to do something towards our planet” as a token of appreciation and a drive to organize many such programs in the future.
