The Global Action Impact Association (GAIA), founded last year by undergrad and graduate students in Cornell’s College of Engineering, is now recruiting potential competitors team members! GAIA is on a mission to organize a national competition that empowers college teams to conceive, design, prototype, and execute high-impact solutions for global sustainability.GAIA is looking for students with a passion for sustainability and impact to participate in wind technology development competitions for electricity access in rural Peru.In this year our competition challenge will focus :

• Scope of energy sources: Wind Energy
• Deployment location: system must function at the sites of WindAid’s existing community partnerships (Luz del Sol, Nueva California, and El Charro, Peru), WindAid’s development and testing facility (Trujillo, Peru), and nearby locations in northern Peru
• Applications of Design: Residential-scale wind energy design for household level 300 to 400 watts
• Sustainability dimensions: Project should touch on the following:
• Safety (can be brief): What are the safety concerns with the technology or system?
• Technical: How does the system work and how much of the available resource converts to usable energy?
• Economics: What is the capital cost, investment lifetime, operating cost, and levelized cost of energy service delivered?

Please visit the link below for more information on how to apply to our organization. The application deadline is April 4 2023:https://www.gaiacompetition.com/become-a-competitorFeel free to reach out to our team at GAIAcompetition@gmail.com regarding any questions you may have. We look forward to getting to know you through the application process!

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Sincerely,

The GAIA Team