This year, more than 3,500 students from 30 high schools and middle schools in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are expected to attend. Goodwin said the EV Challenge curriculum brings together a host of educational disciplines ranging from mathematics to auto mechanics, physics to journalism. Students must raise money for their projects, which encourages them to develop and make public presentations to community sponsors.
Students also develop Web sites as part of the curriculum.
The Carolina EV Challenge is an educational outreach program of the non-profit Carolina Electric Vehicle Coalition Inc., which was organized to educate the public about electric vehicle science and to help advance its research and development.