EVT Records, Honors and Highlights
Saint Thomas Academy Experimental Vehicle Team Awards and Honors:
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
