RACV Energy Breakthrough
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The RACV Energy Breakthrough is a joint initiative of the Country Education Project, the Central Goldfields Shire Council and the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV).
The breakthrough is an exciting program designed to provide opportunities for students, teachers, parents and local industry to work together to design and construct a vehicle, a machine or innovation in technology that will represent an energy breakthrough.
The program encourages participants to examine and use the latest technology while considering its impact on the environment and the way people live locally and globally. The RACV Energy Breakthrough isn’t just a once-a-year event!
School groups work throughout the year to design, build and test vehicles or machines within detailed specifications. It requires a team effort and an across-the-curriculum approach. These groups then bring their vehicles and machines to Maryborough, Victoria in November, for a huge celebration in which they can demonstrate and trial them in action.
The main event involves a 24 hour trial in which students of schools around Australia race their Human Powered Vehicles and Hybrid Powered People Carriers around a circuit of approximately 1.34 kilometres. The teams which race these vehicles consist of 8 riders, usually four male and four female participants. Leading teams can complete almost 900 kilometres in the 24 hour trial.
The overall winner and new lap record holder in the Human Powered Vehicles section for 2005 was Bendigo Senior Secondary College with their trike Bukkamalazir. They completed 651 laps of the main circuit. The overall winner of the Hybrid section was Weerona College with eMax. They completed 648 laps of the smaller circuit.
