School Involvement

Some schools and sites conduct complementary activities.  Among these are:

  • Schools near a rally site take ownership of organizing that site’s rally. This may also serve as a fund-raiser through the concession sales to the participants and visitors.

  • Several schools have built miniature wind tunnels for use in testing vehicle models before building full-sized vehicles. These bolster the educational value of the physics of aerodynamics by enabling students to observe aerodynamics principles in the tunnel’s operation.

  • One school built a full-size wind tunnel, big enough to hold a Power Drive car.

  • The rally site in Hastings NE (Motorsport Park Hastings) allows teams to use racing transponders to count laps. EVERON followed this example by purchasing a set of transponders for use at all rallies, eliminating the need for volunteer lap counters.

  • Another school built an automated method for measuring the performance of the Braking Event. They donated the equipment to EVERON for use in each Braking Event.

  • Several “Instructor Workshops” were held at which experts make presentations in areas of interest, such as battery management, aerodynamics, gear selection, braking & steering systems, safety, and sources for vehicle parts. Most were recorded on video and distributed to interested teams for use as educational aids.

the season

In a typical season, teams begin meeting at the start of the school year to design, build, and test drive their cars for the rally season.  Most teams operate one or two vehicles, building one new vehicle and modifying the previous year’s vehicle.  Several run three or more vehicles.  These vehicles may be in any of the competition classes, depending on the age of the vehicle and the performance history of the team.  The teams with more than one vehicle typically run them in separate competition classes, meaning the team could be champions or high finishers in more than one class.