A Day at the Races: NREL Hosts Colorado Middle School Students With STEM Skills
Abstract
Technology and imagination came together at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on May 20 when 53 teams from 18 Colorado middle schools turned a parking lot into a raceway. The students used the technological know-how picked up in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classes to design and build model electric cars. Powered either by a solar panel or a lithium-ion battery, each car competed in time trials and double elimination races. The final races, between eight cars competing in each category, were over in less than 10 seconds.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1372653
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 25 ENERGY STORAGE; NREL; JUNIOR SOLAR SPRINT; LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CAR COMPETITIONS; SOLAR PANELS; MODEL ELECTRIC CARS; SOLAR POWERED RACES
Citation Formats
Lung, Linda. A Day at the Races: NREL Hosts Colorado Middle School Students With STEM Skills. United States: N. p., 2017.
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Lung, Linda. A Day at the Races: NREL Hosts Colorado Middle School Students With STEM Skills. United States.
Lung, Linda. Fri .
"A Day at the Races: NREL Hosts Colorado Middle School Students With STEM Skills". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1372653.
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title = {A Day at the Races: NREL Hosts Colorado Middle School Students With STEM Skills},
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abstractNote = {Technology and imagination came together at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on May 20 when 53 teams from 18 Colorado middle schools turned a parking lot into a raceway. The students used the technological know-how picked up in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classes to design and build model electric cars. Powered either by a solar panel or a lithium-ion battery, each car competed in time trials and double elimination races. The final races, between eight cars competing in each category, were over in less than 10 seconds.},
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year = {Fri May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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