Our 2024 Entry Lists for the Energy Breakthrough are now live on our website. These schools and their communities are taking on the challenge of designing, constructing a machine that represents an ‘Energy Breakthrough’. Woo-hoo, welcome aboard: this is going to be a great ride!
Entries for the 2024 Energy Breakthrough open TODAY at 12noon! Get your school on the start line by clicking the links to add your interest today.
We're hosting a series of TRYathlon Workshops to improve the TRYathlon category for schools. If you'd like to have your say, join a workshop via the online form or email us today.
We've compiled a national 2024 HPV and EEV events calendar to help demonstrate the breadth and depth of interest in human powered and energy efficient vehicles across Australia. These include events in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia. We at the Energy Breakthrough see these 'other events' as great learning and capacity building opportunities - especially for young people - but for designers, builders, riders, race officials, volunteers and more.
The 2024 Energy Breakthrough Handbook, 2024 HPV and EEV Vehicle Specifications, and HPV and EEV Trial Regulations are now available for download.
The new school year is underway now and all of your key Energy Breakthrough dates and details are here for 2024!
As we sign-off for the end of the year, we take a quick moment to salute our Special Award Winners for 2023. Here are our Best First Year School, Best Presentation, Encouragement Award, Safety Award and Innovation Award winners.
We've been seeking real-world examples of how schools have been incorporating the Energy Breakthrough into their curriculum and have collated the best examples right here on our new 'Curriculum / EB In Schools' page. These have now been packaged into a new web page that covers EB in schools from Primary School to VCE level. Special thank you to those schools for sharing their resources: Avoca Primary School (Pushcarts and Human Powered Vehicles); Katamatite Primary School (Pushcarts and Robotics); Crusoe College, Bendigo & Weeroona College, Bendigo (Human Powered Vehicles / Energy Breakthrough as a STEM / Technology elective) and Bendigo Senior Secondary College (VCE Product Design & Technology Units 1-4). We hope that through this new resource it will spark some ideas about how YOU can incorporate Energy Breakthrough into your school!
Who looks ahead to 2024 and 2025 before 2023 has come to a close? We do! (and we know schools like to plan ahead). Check out the future dates and proposed entry fees for the Energy Breakthrough.
Phew! The 2023 Energy Breakthrough has wrapped up for 2023! We are first and foremost an education event. Students are learning by doing first-hands across many curriculum areas. The racing is the flashy bit, but there’s a lot of other assessments going on, too. We were early pulse check from schools is that the new 'One Track' format and new event schedule was a smooth experience. We hope everyone is enjoying a chance to recharge as the school year winds down.
