Archives: Hydrogen Education

One of the top ways to usher in a hydrogen-based future is to excite the students and young people of today who will be working in the hydrogen industry tomorrow. Just by being exposed to information about hydrogen energy, students will rethink their educational options in high school and college. This is happening on two • Read More »

California isn’t the only hub for hydrogen car development and deployment. New York State is fast becoming a hub as well. For instance, General Motors has a plant in Honeoye Falls, (which is near Rochester) where several hundred engineers are working on Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles. For the past couple of years GM has • Read More »

Engineering students at Northeastern University took first place in the Chem-E-Car Competition that took place in Nashville, Tennessee. The vehicle that they called the Aluminator used a combination of water, aluminum foil and sodium hydroxide to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen was then pushed through a fuel cell along with ambient air, which powered the wheels • Read More »

Industry leader Proton Energy Systems will be working with the Hydrogen Education Foundation (the charitable arm of the National Hydrogen Association) to deliver $1 million total in scholarships to high school seniors who pursue higher education in science or technology. I’ve talked about Proton Energy Systems before as one of the world leaders in building • Read More »

The Shell Eco Marathon America 2009 is going on right now in Fontana, California and let’s students from across the nation compete with very high MPG cars. In 2008, the winning car was from Europe and it was able to squeeze out 7,955mpgs. This year, some high school students are racing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles • Read More »

The 2008 Hydrogen Car Challenge in Australia and New Zealand gives kids a chance to get out of school for a while and learn about hydrogen technology. Students will be able to build fuel cell cars from kits and how to power them with water and electricity. On the website, there is a photo page • Read More »

A couple of weeks ago I talked about the EnergyWhiz Olympics in Florida where high school students in the area built and raced small hydrogen fuel cell cars. Middle schoolers also competed in the Hands-On-Hydrogen challenge as well. Today I’d like to talk about a group of Montana middle school students who were challenged by • Read More »

The EnergyWhiz Olympics, sponsored by the University of Central Florida, featured the Hydrogen Sprint this past weekend to help high school students learn about alternative energy vehicles. Students were asked to design and built hydrogen fuel cell cars and then race them head-to-head. The Hydrogen Sprint is designed to expose students to the potential of • Read More »

When people think of the Green Monster, images of Fenway Park’s 37-foot wall in left field come to mind. But, students in Hawaii hit their own home run with their own homegrown Green Monster, a hydrogen racecar about the size of a loaf of bread. Recent high school graduates at the Kapiolani Community College participated • Read More »