Goal:
The Saint Thomas Academy Experimental Vehicle Team was created in 1998 to take students out of the textbook and provide budding engineers with real-life problem solving activities. Students are pushed to realize that science is not always easy, does not always work, and that the answers are not always at the back of the book.
EVT in the News:
2012 National Indoor Electric Ice Vehicle Challenge
2011 Solar Car Challenger Race
- 2nd Place in the Class Division
- Team member awarded Marks Award
- Received "Award of Beauty" for design
2010 Hunt-Winston Challenge
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
2006 Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge
- First Place Classic Division
2006 Solar Bike Rayce
- First Place High School Division ~ Solar Car (S-Class)
- First Place Class and Overall ~ Solar Bike
2005 Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge
- 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 Bike Rayce Championships
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- National College Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage Champions with 1,131 miles per gallon of gasoline
- First Place, Minnesota Technology Education Association (MTEA) Supermileage Challenge
- National High School Record: 1,322 miles per gallon of gasoline
1999 Supermilage
- National College SAE Supermileage Champions
- 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