Wind Energy Club prepares to compete in Collegiate Wind Competition
Josh Forrest (left), senior aerospace engineering major, information sciences and technology minor, and president of the Wind Energy Club, and Eric Sarbacker, junior chemical engineering major, assemble a test wind turbine to prepare for the upcoming collegiate wind competition.
Image: Tyler Henderson
Wind Energy Club prepares to compete in Collegiate Wind Competition
Mariah Chuprinski
April 14, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Each year since 2014, the Penn State Wind Energy Club has competed in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Collegiate Wind Competition, taking home more first place wins than any other team. With hard work, flexibility and new, creative designs, they plan to do the same this year.
There are not many locally-owned businesses that would risk closing for over a year amid a global pandemic, but Chumleyâs is no ordinary local bar.
A staple in the downtown State College area since 1984, the bar reopened on April 14 for the first time after renovations forced the business to close its doors last year.
Ellen Braun, the general manager at Chumleyâs, has worked there since 1992 and said while the time away was needed, the loss of the community was âharder than [she] could have ever imagined.â
In March 2020, just as the coronavirus was first detected in Centre County, new owners acquired the local bar and shut down operations soon after in order to begin renovations.