The 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. In the past ten years, students on the team have designed, built, tested, and competed with small one-person vehicles that are as varied as the contests they were built for. The team has put its inventive talents to use in Supermileage, Electrathon, The World Human Powered Ice Race, Solar Bike Rayce, The National Indoor Electric Ice Vehicle Challenge, and the Dell-Winston Solar Car Challenge.