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The Gertrudiscollege (GC) and The Shell Eco-marathon (SEM)
Goal: interrest young people for Energy Efficiency and for a cleaner environment.
The GC tries to educate its students about the content and possibiliet of jobs with science and technology. Those possibilies are in fact numerous and the choice is to low. Students often mistakenly things that those jobs are boring and dirty, and that they are poorly paid. But these jobs are often challanging, "clean"and we well paid. And besides that these jobs offer a great job security nowadays.
Since start 2000 there is a partnership named jet-net (youth and technology network) among the big Dutch industries, the ministry of education and and ammong of participating high (knowledge) schools (among which the GC). The goal is to clarify the contents of sience and technology by education by compagnies at schools, by compagnyvisits, by workshops during Careerdays and by participating in a special
project: The Shell Eco-marathon.
This sem has verions in the Americas, in Asia and in Europe. The challange to universities, colleges and highschools is: build a verhicle that is as clean and economical as possible. This is tested by measuring how many km the vehicle can drive on 1 liter fuel. in 2012 there will be 16 "schools" ( 2 universities, 6 colleges and 8 highschools) with 18 teams out of a total of 220 "schools" from 20 different countries. the finals will be held for the 28th time in may 2012, this time in Rotterdam around Ahoy.
In 2012 Tue GC will be participating for the 4th time with the vehicle proxima driving on GTL-diesel (clean diesel made from natural gas (see pircute on the right) ). Last year we managed to drive 138 km on 1 liter fuel. This year our goal will be to drive 200 km on 1 liter fuel. we are planning on achieving this by making many admistments to the vehicle. Some of them are:
a cocon of carbonfiber, adjusting the motor better, a better transmission, better track and a better discbrake in the back.
See you in Rotterdam in May 2012!!!!!
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