YSU student project becomes permanent OH WOW! exhibit

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University students Clay McCullough, Anthony Onderko and Seth Nycum wowed the judges.

The hydro generator they designed and constructed for their first-year engineering course was selected by a committee from OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology to become one of the center’s exhibits.

McCullough, of Leetonia; Onderko, of Lordstown; and Nycum, of Warren, formed one of 11 teams of YSU first-year engineering students whose projects Oh Wow!’s panel selected.

McCullough said they visited the center as part of the project and saw the movable dams already there for children to experiment with.

Water flows through a wheel in their contraption, and the position of the dams determines the speed of the wheel propelled by the water.

Unlike the other Oh Wow! exhibits, though, the hydro generator demonstrates what heat power can do. If it’s fast enough, it powers a tiny light bulb that’s part of their invention.

Read more about the exhibit in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.