A 2022 Grant for Blue Ridge Technical Center

The project goal is to give the students in various disciplines at Blue Ridge Technical Center a challenge in designing, building, and evaluating the performance of an electrical go‐kart to be raced against various schools in the region. Blue Ridge Technical Center engineering students will design an electrical go‐kart with the input from the teachers in the technical center. The design will then be passed to the welding students who will have to use the provided blueprints to form and weld the frame. The automotive students will add the mechanical features, and the electricity students will get additional exposure as they wire the 48V electrical system. The engineering students will act as the project managers and serve as the collaborators for this real world, multi‐disciplined challenge.