At OffshoreWind4Kids, we believe in inspiring the next generation of engineers through hands-on offshore wind education. To strengthen this mission, we are expanding our Advisory Committee and inviting new members from across the industry. We are looking for senior professionals with a mandate for outreach in their organisation who are eager to: 💬 Share strategic advice and guidance. 🎙️ Act as ambassadors for offshore wind education. 📆 Join quarterly online meetings (with

Week 10 of CVEN90071: Offshore Wind Beach Demo 🌊⚡ After weeks of diving into the theory of monopiles and suction caissons, our students took their learning outdoors for some hands-on fun under the sunshine at Port Melbourne Beach! Using the OffshoreWind4Kids demo kits, our University of Melbourne students built and tested a range of hashtag#OffshoreWind foundations and systems — from gravity-based foundations and monopiles to jackets on caissons, spar buoys, semi-submersible

We’ve been experimenting with new ways to make offshore wind more tangible for kids (and the young at heart 😉). Our latest prototype is a 3D printed jack-up vessel. We even managed to load it with our 3D printed monopiles on deck - and yes, it floats stably! 🌊⚓️ This is only the first iteration. We still have some tweaks to make before it’s ready for our webshop, but we’re excited to share progress and involve the community early on. 👉 We’d love your feedback to see what f

⚓️ Sometimes our office turns into a mini staging port for offshore foundation - Thanks Sydney Silver from COVE for the order! https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7376873165505056768

👀 Check out this new model developed by Xander Maes 💪 🎓 When interns start with OffshoreWind4Kids, we like to challenge them to go out of their comfort zone 🧘 CAD modelling, 3D printing, laser cutting ... all new skills Xander had to master to make this small scale version of the Saitec model 🌊 👊 While interns contribute to making the OffshoreWind4Kids models better and help out at events, we also make sure that they acquire skills to make an impact once they enter the

💨 Showing children and students the wide range of career possibilities in offshore wind is key to building the workforce of tomorrow 👷 ➡️ www.OffshoreWind.careers https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7371792561041985536

🏆 2026 Floating Wind Challenge is about to kick off! 🌊 🌍 The world's greatest student challenge in offshore wind brought together 14 teams this year in Zeebruges, Belgium 🇧🇪 We're planning to make the 2026 edition even better 💪 🧐 Do you want to learn more, participate or support the challenge? 🙏 📹 Attend the kick-off webinar on 22 September 13:00 CET 📆 https://lnkd.in/ecvwjMUg https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williambeuckelaers_2026-floating-wind-challenge-is-about-ac

🌊 We tested our new OffshoreWind4Kids beach models at Sint-Anna beach in Antwerp 🇧🇪 including the barge, X1 Wind, spar buoy, TetraSpar, and TLP ⚡️ These scaled prototypes give kids (and adults!) a hands-on way to explore offshore wind technology and understand how different floating structures work 👩‍🏫 A big shout-out to our interns Xander Maes and Benoît CAZES for their great work in designing and improving these models. 🙌 Check out the results in the video below — and

👾 We built an offshore wind cable laying game - with the help of ChatGPT 5 🤓 Can you beat our high score? 🏆 Play the game here: https://lnkd.in/eT3jpZhH (optimised for desktop 🖥️) 🕹️ OffshoreWind4Kids will continue to build digital experiences and we're looking for student interns to help build the future of offshore wind simulation games 😁 Reach out to want to apply: offshorewind4kids@gmail.com 🏅 Top scores currently by Benoît CAZES, Xander Maes and myself https://www

Celebrating the Success of the Trinity Floating Wind Team! 🌬️ 🌊 Congratulations to the EirGrid sponsored Trinity Floating Wind team at Trinity College Dublin after their recent success at the Floating Wind Challenge in hashtag#Belgium. 🇧🇪 🤝 The global competition invites students from around the world to design the most innovative floating wind turbine.🌍 The team came away with a variety of awards: 🥇 1st place - Power Generation Efficiency 🥇 1st Place - Sustainable

🌊💨 NUS CEE makes a splash at the Floating Wind Challenge 2025! For the first time, undergraduate students from NUS CEE participated in the Floating Wind Challenge - https://lnkd.in/gVuMekav, an exciting international competition where teams from around the world design, build, and test scale models of floating wind turbines. The challenge pushes participants to apply engineering principles creatively while tackling real-world renewable energy problems. Our CEE team, Luck of

Reflecting on Te Matatini 2025: offshore wind, culture and connection Ngā mihi nui to all who came by our stall at Te Matatini o Te Kahui Maunga earlier this year! Held in Ngāmotu, the festival brought together thousands to celebrate kapa haka and Māori culture — and Parkwind was privileged to be part of it as a stallholder and sponsor supporting local iwi hosting responsibilities. Our demonstration space welcomed a diverse stream of visitors: from inquisitive tamariki buil

Très content d'avoir participé au Floating Wind Challenge 2025 et remporté le prix du meilleur transport et de l'installation d'une maquette d'éolienne flottante. Une expérience qui conclut le projet de département GMM, on a beaucoup appris en gestion de projet, conception mécanique et simulation numérique. Pas de prix principal cette année mais un projet porté au niveau d'équipes nombreuses avec plus de moyens. Très heureux d'avoir fait ce projet avec Juan Felipe Gonzalez Ca

🌊 OffshoreWind4Kids is launching its 3D printed models, ideal for classroom or home demonstrations of offshore wind turbines 👩‍🏫 🤓 The models are developed to showcase stability of the different foundation types and the aerodynamics of the wind turbines 💨 💬 Tell us in the comments which is your favourite or if you'd like to see some other models ✨ 🛜 You can find them on our website: https://lnkd.in/emDujmwS 🧸 We have them available as printed models or 3D print files

From Nova Scotia to Belgium, team Tetra Turbine from Dalhousie University made a bold mark at the hashtag#2025FloatingWindChallenge! As the smallest team in the competition, they stood out with an ambitious Tension Leg Platform design—earning third place overall and winning the award for Best Cost Efficiency at Full Scale. Their success highlights the value of hands-on, real-world experience in preparing students for possible careers in hashtag#CleanEnergy. COVE’s partnership

Event Recap –hashtag#FutureProfessionals in Action. The Core Value winners of the FIRST LEGO League NL Finals got to claim their prize offered by the Brunel Foundation: an OffshoreWind4Kids tailor made Masterclass! After quite a long journey for some, we kicked off the afternoon with a warm welcome: enjoying a traditional lunch with local products and a moment of relaxation in the Brunel game room, where the kids enjoyed table tennis, OW4Kids VR headsets, and table football.

COVE is proud to announce support from RBC for the OffshoreWind4Kids (OW4K) program, which COVE delivers in Canada through its partnership with OffshoreWind4Kids, based in Belgium. RBC is helping COVE scale the OW4K program across the Maritimes, extending its reach and impact as a leading education and workforce development initiative that prepares youth for careers in renewable energy and offshore wind. Expansion into Prince Edward Island is planned in the near future. Throu

After several months of work, our CentraleSupélec team took part in the Floating Wind Challenge 2025, a student competition focused on designing, building, and testing a reduced-scale floating wind turbine platform. 🌊⚙️ We had the chance to present our prototype during the final in Zeebrugge — and were pleased to receive the "Most Balanced Structure" mention, rewarding the overall consistency of our project across key criteria like stability, cost efficiency or structural in

From 7 to 11 July, I had the incredible opportunity to take part in the Offshore Floating Wind Challenge, organised by OffshoreWind4Kids. With our team Wind4Life, we spent an entire semester developing the concept of a floating wind turbine. It was an incredibly rewarding and educational experience, and seeing our structure being tested on the beach in Zeebrugge was truly amazing. Beyond the challenge itself, we also had the chance to visit the Belgian offshore wind farms by

2025 Floating Wind Challenge 🏆 7 - 11 July @ Zeebruges, Belgium 🇧🇪 🎬 The aftermovie is out and captures the amazing vibes of the final competition week 🌊 14 teams from around the world traveled to compete in the world's biggest student challenge in offshore wind 🌍 Thanks again to all our partners for making this a reality, our jury partners: Bekaert, Parkwind, Jan De Nul Group, Smulders and Seaway7 - and the supporting partners: Vestas, EDF and ABN AMRO Bank N.V....