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On Sunday, April 29, forty-four middle school teams from across the nation raced against one another in the Lithium-Ion Battery-Powered Model Car Challenge as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl Competition. "A featured event at the National Finals for middle school students, the Model Car Challenge invites students to design, build, and race model cars. This competition tests the creative engineering skills of many of the brightest math and science students in the nation as they gain hands-on experience in the automotive design process and with electric battery technology." The Science Bowl team from Daniel Wright Junior High School (Lincolnshire, IL) has captured the National Championship. They recorded the fastest time in every heat and were the only team to complete the 20-meter track in less than six seconds The team was comprised of the following students: Andy Xu (grade 8); Andrew Jin (grade 8); William Chang (grade 8); Allen Guo (grade 8); James Wei (grade 6). Mrs. Sophia Capelli of Lake Forest coached the Daniel Wright team with assistance from Anthony Hafner of Cary.
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 Photographs by Jack Dempsey, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science  View more photos Watch video of event |
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