Sustainable Transportation Education Project (STEP)

We are starting a new project that will carry us through the spring trimester. We will be participating in a program from NCSU called STEP (Sustainable Transportation Education Project). We will work in teams of 3-4 to design, build, and test 1/10 scale electric cars with rechargable batteries and Solar charging stations. We will compete with other middle schools from around the state on April 27th. Part of the project involves building and testing virtual cars and charging stations on the website: www.whiteboxlearning.com. Each team has a student id to enter the site and build their car. The site has really good resources for learning about the science behind the designs.
There is also curriculum available at the STEP website: http://step.gridc.net/. It can be found under Member Resources, PEV Design Rally Curriculum. The RV information is for the high school program that uses Radio Controlled Vehicles.