{"id":160310,"date":"2026-02-18T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:03:10","slug":"orlando-students-learn-power-grid-basics-in-interactive-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160310\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando students learn power grid basics in interactive workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Students at Orlando Science Charter School gained hands-on experience in the utility industry on Feb. 17, 2026, through a program called Project A.W.E.S.O.M.E.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The STEM-based initiative is a partnership between the Orlando Utilities Commission and the Orlando Science Center.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b31397156acea816df859939948e7240.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The program focuses on teaching students in Central Florida about energy efficiency and water conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since the partnership began in 2009, more than 184,000 fifth graders in Orange and Osceola counties have participated in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workshops.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6460dd8408f7e3e4e563f554e2f9237f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the workshop, students engaged in several engineering challenges, including a task where they learned to balance a power grid. They also completed projects focused on engineering a drip irrigation system to understand water management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students at Orlando Science Charter School gained hands-on experience in the utility industry on Feb. 17, 2026, through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,7791,139,141,140,19344,22369,76780],"class_list":["post-160310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-science-center","tag-orlando-utilities-commission","tag-utility-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}