Shop Rat Friends in Alabama win the 2009 Basic Utility Vehicle Competition

posted on April 21st, 2009

Congratulations to our Shop Rat friends in Alabama!

Calera High School Students participated in the 2009 Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV) Competition and won first in its class and outscored every team in the competition taking home 1st place! As stated on the BUV Website www.drivebuv.org “This annual event harnesses the creative energy of college students from across the nation in an effort to develop a simple, low-cost utility vehicle that can benefit low-income people in rural areas of developing countries. Student teams design and build these vehicles to compete in a series of tests and events to determine the best design.“

Calera High School Team’s score was 78.5 the next highest score was John Brown University with a score of 72.25. As a reminder this was a collegiate level engineering competition. These students work as a team and performed awesomely and deserved their #1 spot in the competition. Again, Congratulations to Calera High School for their victory!