KidWind × Central Creativity
Renewable energy you canput on a table
KidWind builds the wind and solar kits that engineering and science teachers reach for when a lesson needs to actually turn. We pack and ship them. Now we are bringing them to our own shelf, starting with the one that needs nothing but a fan and a floor.
How this works
We already pack the boxes
Central Creativity is KidWind’s fulfillment partner. When a school orders a KidWind kit, it is very often our team that picks it, packs it and ships it.
Reselling them is the next step, and it is the one teachers keep asking us for: they are already buying our kits, our camps and our professional development, and they would rather not run a second purchase order through a second vendor for the wind turbine that sits next to them. One cart, one invoice, one shipment.
That is what this page is. The first item is written out in full. The rest are named, so you can see where this is going.
First on the shelf
Sail Car Classpack
Forty cars, forty sails, and a room that gets loud. Students build a car, design a sail, put it in front of a fan and find out what the wind will actually move.
It is the simplest thing KidWind makes and one of the best arguments for building anything by hand. A sail that catches too little air goes nowhere. A sail that catches too much tips the car over. Between those two failures is a shape a student has to find, and finding it is the lesson.
Forty decks, so forty students each take one home, or twenty pairs race theirs against each other. Enough skewers, beads and card stock to go with them.
No batteries, no motors, no wiring. The only energy in the room is moving air, which is exactly what makes the trade-off visible.
KidWind designed it for the youngest end and found older groups kept asking for it. Middle and high school classes use it as a fast design-iteration warm-up.
KidWind publishes the Sail Cars activity that this pack is made for, so the lesson plan is written before the box arrives.
What is in the box
$125 KidWind’s list price · our price is not set yet · ask us and we will tell you where it lands
Also on the way
Eight more, in two directions
These are the KidWind items we are working toward carrying. Names only for now, because a kit we have not put our hands on does not get a description from us.
On the wind side
Coming soon. We’re blown away by what KidWind builds, and these are next.
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On the solar side
Coming soon. Still charging up — these are worth the wait.
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Before you ask
Three questions we are getting
Can I order a KidWind kit from you today?
Not through this site yet. Reseller terms are being worked out, and until they are signed we are not going to take an order we cannot price. Email us what you need and we will either quote it or point you at the fastest way to get it.
You ship KidWind orders already. What changes?
Where the order is placed, and almost nothing else. The same team packs the same box. The difference is that a school buying a wind kit alongside a Central Creativity camp or class set will be able to do it on one purchase order instead of two.
Will you train our teachers on these?
Yes, and that is the part we are most interested in. A kit on a shelf teaches nobody. Our professional development is built around getting hands-on equipment actually used, and renewable energy is a subject most teachers were never taught themselves.
Talk to us
Tell us what your room needs
Whether it is forty sail cars for a Friday or a whole renewable energy unit with the training to run it, start with an email and we will work backward from the lesson.
info@centralcreativity.com · (866) 381–1760
For manufacturers
We are a good place for a kit to land
We design and build hands-on kits, we pack and ship them, we train the people who use them, and we run the events where they get used. If you make something for classrooms and the hard part is getting it into them, that is the conversation — info@centralcreativity.com or (866) 381–1760.