Hi,I am Peter Cullen, the voice of OPTIMUS PRIME.
I’m here today at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
with the next generation of engineers.
The winning teams for the 2017
NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge,
otherwise known as NASA OPSPARC.
These young creative minds took NASA technology and
were able to use it to solve different problems they witnessed out in the world.
Hi, I’m….Sienna, I'm Olivia, I'm Mila, I'm Carolyn.
We’re from Fidalgo Elementary School in Anacortes, WA.
We came up with a turbine to power your house by harnessing waste
water draining from the sinks,
showers, and other water spouts in your house.
How did you come up with that idea?
We wanted to solve the problem of non-renewable resources.
Because these resources run out, people can't do necessary things,
such as cooking.
We started researching turbines and found a turbine that
turns water into electricity,
this is called hydroelecticity.
Then we applied to water waste in your house.
Having done our research
we designed a prototype and then gathered
our materials and tools to bring our idea to life.
And that was it?
No, we had to test and evaluate it.
We originally had foil over the cut up pieces
of plastic bottle to represent the blades
we tested the turbine with the foil and realized
that the foil could not take the pressure of the water spilling down
because the foil would always fall off.
So we fixed the blades by taking the foil off and covering
them with duct tape.
When we finalized our design
we made a glob full of pictures and videos.
You too can come up with a cool solution like that.
Join us for next year's OPSPARC challenge
where creativity and technology come together
and new ideas are formed.
Be the Spark, Join OPSPARC!