Teachers from the southwestern area of Iowa met at Southwestern Community College Dec. 4 for a workshop on renewable wind energy.

KidWind, the project that held the workshop, is an international company that engages teachers and students in learning about clean energy.

KidWind was founded in 2002 in California by Michael Arquin. Over the course of a decade, the project went international and, according to the KidWind website, "our data shows that we have helped teachers and students build over 50,000 experimental wind turbines."