2013 Electric Vehicle Challenge Results!

Official results of the contest. Good job to all the teams, and hope to see them next year! Below is a little video our team put together highlighting the event.

2013 EV Challenge

McMichael came in third place! 

Events:

School Initiative- Kenzie McCollum; placed 2nd
With the help of Matthew Satterfield, Robert Skipworth, Tyler Haney, Mr.Wheatley and his class, and Ms.Terrell and her class. McMichael had 307 points in this event while 1st place had 393 and 3rd had 228. This event is about receiving points by doing things to inform the community and school about electric vehicles and the challenge.

Oral Presentation- Tyler Smith and Nathan Connor; placed 3rd
This was Nathan's second year in this event and Tyler's first. This event consist of preparing a speech about our electric vehicle, what we have learned, and electric vehicles in general.

Jeopardy- CJ Hall and Dylan Sullivan; placed 4th  
Although Tyler Haney, who planned to participate in this event for the second time, couldn't make it and Dylan had no time to prepare before taking his place. This event involves students preparing for it by learning a packet of information about the Ev Challenge and then using it while playing jeopardy against other schools.

Troubleshooting- Spencer Griffin and Chase Benfield; placed 5th
This was Spencer's 3rd year participating in troubleshooting and Chase's first. In this event, students have to take a written test and also find the problem within a circuit of wires.

Vehicle Design (Modified class)- Kenzie McCollum and Chase Benfield; placed 4th  
This was the first year participating in the Ev Challenge for both of them. During this event the two had to talk about their school's electric car and the changes they made to it.

Range (Modified class)- Spencer Griffin and Chase Benfield; placed 2nd  
We hope to install a BMS to help us monitor and control our batteries next year so we can last even longer in the range event. We drove 32 miles during the event while the 1st place school drove 34 miles. The purpose of this event is to drive around the track provided by the NCCAR facility to test how many miles the car's batteries will last.

Autocross (Modified class)- Chase Benfield; placed 1st  
This was Chase's first time in any autocross event; although, he has experience with racing go-carts. His best time was 50.135 seconds. This event consist of a student driving their electric car through a course set up with cones while trying to get the best time and avoid hitting any of the cones.

Acceleration (Modified class)- Kenzie McCollum and Tyler Smith; placed 2nd 
Kenzie's time was 10.828 seconds and Tyler's was 10.805 seconds. In this event, a student drives their school's car an eighth of a mile to try and get the best acceleration time.

Vehicle Design

Autocross

Acceleration

Range

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Getting The Black Widow Ready

This is our car body we are using to make The Black Widow. 

As you can see, it needs a new floor panel put in.

Brandon is cutting the floor panel out of a donated car.

The car and the replacement floor panel are going to be sent to M&H Body Shop today.

Teachers Driving a Student Made Car

Ms.Chaney

Ms.Fylnt

Dr.Poplin

Mr.Webster

 

Mr.Hill

McMichael High School employees driving the electric vehicle.

Advisor John Butler talks about our program

Nuts and Bolts Goes Green

Feature in 5.0 Mustang and Super Ford

 

Check out our article that appeared in 5.0 mustang and super fords.  

http://www.mustang50magazine.com/featuredvehicles/m5ld_1206_1992_ford_mustang_creative_spark/viewall.html

Vintage footage of the Electric Fox... Pre EVconversion.

McMichael vs. Rockingham football game

McMichael meets Rockingham Co. in a huge rivalry game tonight.  McMichael started the day right w/ a pep rally at 6:00am that was televised on local news channel WFMY News 2 Good Morning Show.

That evening the EV team headed up the hill to the football game entrance where many folks stopped by to see the EV and what the students have done.

Nathan preparing for his first drive of the EV

Nathan and Phillip heading up the hill to the stadium entance

Nathan and J. Butler discussing EV components before folks start entering the stadium

Tyler and Phillip acting smooth as always

Featured in Reidsville Review

http://www2.rockinghamnow.com/news/2012/sep/10/mcmichael-students-take-ev-challenge-ar-2193701/

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EV teams enjoys a Job well done at DNC plus visits Discovery Place

Phillip (left) and Tyler (center) using the interactive camera microscope at Discovery Place

McMichael students headed back to Charlotte after the close of the DNC 2012. Upon arrival students found the "electric fox" fully reconstructed by the Phillip O. Berry students and ready to be plugged into the charging station at Discovery Place. The car had been converted to be used with a J1772 plug that is compatible w/ the Discovery Place charging station. Afterwards students enjoyed the sites of Discovery Place and their interactive exhibits. Some of the Discovery Place employees took the students "behind the scenes" to see how the exhibits are created. Next the EV will go under an inspection and then goes back under the knife as more students will be learning about electricity and alternative energies.

Electric fox beside the solar photovoltaic panels at Discovery Place used to power the charging station

Top Left: Mike Moore (ampmobile conversions), John Butler, Spencer Griffin, Ben Lawrence     Lower Left: Phillip Smith, Tyler Smith

CarolinaFest 2012 at Democratic National Convention, Charlotte NC

McMichael students met w/ students from Phillip O. Berry Academy at Discovery Place in uptown Charlotte. Together students helped setup the Discovery Place/EV Challenge/Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition booth at CarolinaFest 2012. The McMichael students shared with the Phillip O. Berry student's their experiences with EV conversions. Afterwards students enjoyed the sites and sounds of a large political gathering. Students especially enjoyed the Google building (made of shipping containers) where Google showed off cutting edge technology.

Graduation 2012

Ev team members graduating on May 26, 2012. 

From left: Clinton Blankenship, Quinton Dickerson, Hunter Foulks, Graham Beasley.

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EV Challenge 2012 

The 2012 EV Team

On April 21st and 22nd the McMichael EV Team went to the EV Challenge to compete in the final event. This year going into the Challenge we were more prepared than last year because we had spent so much time teaching and helping each student learn a specific area of the challenge which really diversified the team.

 Tyler Haney and Eli Strickland on the new event EV Jeopardy. 

This was one of the First Events of the day and kept going for most of the day. The Jeopardy Event let students test their knowledge of  the history and mechanics of Electric Vehicles. In round one we had the highest score letting us go to round two but then we ended up drawing for second in the second round we were only two questions away from first.

Dylan in the Technical Inspection

Dylan stepped up for our team in this event where you show off your knowledge of Ev's and your own car. He showed off his great knowledge of the Electric Fox to the judges telling them about how we built the car from the ground up with all of our technical innovations and many other things about the car.

Spencer and Clinton Troubleshooting

Spencer put a lot of work into learning all of the questions he had to know along with building a replica of the troubleshooting board for extra practice. Clinton didn't really even know he had to do this until the event but put in some quick last minute studying to help out Spencer as much as could.

Clinton and Dylan driving in the Range Event

This event was a little choppy considering we were the only car class in the whole event this year. to help us with this they tried giving us an advantage with the range and a disadvantage to autocross. This was based on the scores from last year in comparison to the truck class which we were bench marked against during the driving portion of the events. After all was said and done we didn't do so hot in this event but we did our best and look to improving in the future.

Quinton driving in the rainy Autocross

This event was difficult for all the teams because of the constant rain on Saturday. Most of our team was very tired at this point because of the rain that we slept through while camping at the event. However we did our best in the final event of the challenge even though the the track was very difficult to traverse with all of the rain and the 180 degree turn which our car couldn't handle very well.

The EV Challenge was very fun this year and we defiantly we be making modifications to the car and hopefully returning next year to do even better than this year. Here are some other pictures from the 2012 EV Challenge.

Getting ready for the EV Challenge

Here at McMichael were making some final changes and modifications to the car before the EV Challenge tomorrow. We have been working very hard to make the car as good as possible for this year. We are changing the 92' dashboard to an 82' dashboard and even though they are the same model they have many differences and we are having to custom make some parts.

One of our sponsors Victory Chevrolet has let us borrow a Chevy Tahoe to take to the EV Challenge.

The EV Challenge this year is being held at the NCCAR facility in Garysburg NC and consist of many high school teams making Ev's just like us. They have added some new events to the final challenge this year such as acceleration and a jeopardy challenge. Our students are hard at work studying up on the knowledge of electric vehicles, such as Nathan Connor on his oral presentation and Eli Strickland and Tyler Haney working on the EV jeopardy event. Wish us luck as we go to NCCAR and take on the EV Challenge!