Information on our MNE Department’s website describing a senior design project in our mechanical engineering program inspired an eighth grader from Santa Ynez, CA to build a wind tunnel. The student, Caio Motta, had the need to build a wind tunnel for his science project to demonstrate principles of lift and drag. Caio contacted Dr. Savas Yavuzkurt who taught senior design in which the students built a miniature wind tunnel. After receiving instructions from Dr. Yavuzkurt on how to manufacture a replica of the miniature tunnel, the eighth grader was able to construct one for his own science project.