The 2008 Hydrogen Car Challenge in Australia and New Zealand gives kids a chance to get out of school for a while and learn about hydrogen technology. Students will be able to build fuel cell cars from kits and how to power them with water and electricity. On the website, there is a photo page [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I talked about the EnergyWhiz Olympics in Florida where high school students in the area built and raced small hydrogen fuel cell cars. Middle schoolers also competed in the Hands-On-Hydrogen challenge as well. Today I’d like to talk about a group of Montana middle school students who were challenged by [...]
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The EnergyWhiz Olympics, sponsored by the University of Central Florida, featured the Hydrogen Sprint this past weekend to help high school students learn about alternative energy vehicles. Students were asked to design and built hydrogen fuel cell cars and then race them head-to-head. The Hydrogen Sprint is designed to expose students to the potential of [...]
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When people think of the Green Monster, images of Fenway Park’s 37-foot wall in left field come to mind. But, students in Hawaii hit their own home run with their own homegrown Green Monster, a hydrogen racecar about the size of a loaf of bread. Recent high school graduates at the Kapiolani Community College participated [...]
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Students at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom have developed the country’s first hydrogen race car. Engineering Ph.D. students, John Goddard and the ironically-named James Waters have converted a Formula Student racecar to run on hydrogen gas. The first Formula Student racecar to run on hydrogen will do so in a very green [...]
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St. Andrews Episcopal middle school in Amarillo, Texas has won this year’s Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors sponsored National Science Bowl Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge. The Challenge took place at the University of Denver and St. Andrews beat out Salem Middle School in Apex, North Carolina to win $200 and a [...]
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This year’s Shell Eco Marathon was held April 14, 2007 at the California Speedway in Fontana, CA and was open to 20 colleges and 3 high schools. Leave it to a bunch of high schoolers to win the hydrogen fuel cell competition as Los Altos Academy of Engineering (LAAE) did just that with their vehicle [...]
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Because of the tragedy last week at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) there has been much interest by the media and others on what this college is all about. One aspect that has been largely overlooked by the media, however, is that as the nation’s 9th ranked public undergraduate program, Virginia Tech’s [...]
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Middle school teachers in Ames, Iowa have received an education on hydrogen cars. This is thanks to the National Renewable Energy Lab and expert Rick Shin. The point of the exercise was to teach the teachers about miniature hydrogen cars so they could then go back to class and impart their knowledge to their students. [...]
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The young people of today will be the scientists, engineers, marketers and CEOs ushering in, maintaining and sustaining the hydrogen economy of tomorrow. As such, many high schools around the country are being proactive in educating students about hydrogen fuel cells right now. One of the biggest pushes is through the Washington State Fuel Cell [...]
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