Today’s Hydrogen Grand Prix Australian Championships Results
Our Canterbury Hydrogen Grand Prix Secondary Team came third out of 20 crews competing up in the Gladstone Entertainment & Convention Centre today!
The five students completed 499 laps over four hours, with their very own hydrogen-powered remote-controlled car, to grab the bronze trophy.
Congratulations to our very own ‘Fast & Furious’ racers…
NEWS STORY: First Ever Australian H2GP Held Today
Gladstone in regional Queensland hosted Australia’s first ever Horizon Hydrogen Grand Prix (H2GP), a school-based science and engineering program, that seeks to nurture the talent of the world’s future renewable energy leaders.
The four-hour race held at the Gladstone Entertainment & Convention Centre on Friday 21 April from 10:30am, was supported by several industry and government partners.
The event itself, run by Horizon Educational, is the culmination of a six-month long STEM education program, in which students worked with teammates and industry mentors to design, engineer and construct their very own hydrogen-powered remote-controlled cars.
Today’s H2GP saw 20 teams from across Australia’s East Coast – including 12 from Central Queensland – put their renewable energy engineering skills to the test, racing their self-built 1:10-scale hydrogen-powered cars over the four-hour ‘endurance race’.
The race winner is advancing to the Horizon Hydrogen Grand Prix World Final, to be held in September.