EVT Records, Honors and Highlights

Saint Thomas Academy Experimental Vehicle Team Awards and Honors:

2009 Solar Bike Rayce
The 15th annual race was held at Crowder College over Memorial Day weekend and the team won all its events. The team finished first overall, first and second in the bike division, first in the S-class car division, had the fastest lap and won the sportsmanship award.

2009 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Extension Grant
The team received a $2,000 extension grant to help build their solar vehicle for the May 2009, Solar Bike Rayce USA.

2007-08 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Grant
The $10,000 grant will support the development of a street-legal, electric motorcycle that will provide greater crash protection than today’s motorcycles. The vehicle will be able to travel 40+ miles before needing to be recharged by an on-board, 110-volt charger. The team will travel to MIT in June for the presentation.

2007 National Indoor Electric Ice Vehicle Challenge
(Saint Thomas Ice Arena: March 23-24, 2007)

- The EVT members created this challenge and hosted 15 teams from the Upper Midwest.
David Riehm '07 won the race.

2006 Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge
(Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth: July 15-20, 2006)

- First Place Classic Division

2006 Solar Bike Rayce
(Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri: May 14, 2006)

- First Place High School Division ~ Solar Car (S-Class)
- First Place Class and Overall ~ Solar Bike


2005 Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge
(Round Rock, TX to Pasadena, CA: July 8-16, 2005)

- First Place Overall
- First Place Classic Division
- Winner of the Terion Award for engineering excellence
- First car in the Classic Division to win the Challenge
- First car in either division to complete all the available miles in the Challenge
- First car in the Classic Division to complete 130 miles in one day


2004 National Solar BikeRayce Championships
(Topeka, KS: May 22-23, 2004)

Solar Car (S-class)
- First Place Overall
- National Record: 100 Km in 1:52:36 (32.61 mph)
- Previous record (2003): Los Altos High School,CA 2:25:36 (25.24 mph)

Solar Bike (ABX-Class)
- First Place Overall
- National Record: 100 km in 2:08:04 (28.67 mph)
- Previous record (2001): Old Rocket Men (adults) 2:26:32 (25.0 mph)


2003 World Human Powered Ice Race Championships
(Lindstrom, MN: January 25, 2003)

- First place:100-meter time trial with 7.6 seconds (29.4 mph)
- Second place: 50-meter drag race
- First place: Five lap circuit race

Studded Class
-First Place Overall

Rubber Only Class
- First Place Overall


2002 Electraton (Electric Car)
National Electric Car Association Championships: Berlin Speedway, Marne, MI (May 24, 2002)
- First Place Overall- NECA World Record: 37.52 miles in one hour.
- Previous record held by Lakeshore High School, MI (37.00 miles)

Toyota Midwest Speed Trials: Hawkeye Downs Speedway, Cedar Rapids, IA (May, 2002)
- First Place Overall, Standard Class (38.50 miles in one hour)
- First Place Overall, Open Class
- Toyota Design Award
- Track Record: 38.15 miles in one hour


2000 Supermileage
GM Proving Grounds, Kalamazoo, MI (June, 2000)
- National College Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage Champions with 1,131 miles per gallon of gasoline

Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, MN (May, 2000)
- First Place, Minnesota Technology Education Association (MTEA) Supermileage Challenge
- National High School Record: 1,322 miles per gallon of gasoline


1999 Supermilage
GM Proving Grounds, Kalamazoo, MI (June, 1999)
- National College SAE Supermileage Champions
Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, MN (May, 1999)
- First Place, MTEA Supermileage Challenge
- National High School Record: 1,005 miles per gallon of gasoline


1998 Supermilage
- First Year of Experimental Vehicle Team
- First Place, MTEA Supermileage Challenge
- 836 miles per gallon of gasoline