Energy Breakthrough

Energy Breakthrough in Maryborough 

On the 23rd and the 25th, 17 students ranging from years 7 to 12 went to Maryborough, to compete in the energy breakthrough race.

Energy breakthrough is 24 hour race in which schools from all over Australia come to compete in. We compete in the HPV (human powered vehicles), so the two carts which we made and designed were completely powered by us. Our two carts were back to the future themed with one being called ‘Great Scott’ and the other ‘The Sizzler’ in honour of one of the teachers who started the program Mr Sirrals.

The weekend in total was so much fun, it was rare to not see a smile on everyone’s face, and so many of the participants are already preparing themselves for the 2020 team tryouts. 24 hours was a long time to race, so not a whole lot of sleep was had but regardless of that on the Sunday everyone was able to still work well together, although everyone was looking forward to getting home and having a long nap.

Throughout the weekend we were able to engage in an array of team building activities, from working together to help out in the pits, to helping build, design and fix our carts. Everyone was able to learn so much from the event and make so many new friendships in every year level.

Evie Crawford

Over the weekend of the 23rd-24th of November, two teams of Woodmans Hill Secondary College students rode human powered vehicles for 24 hours straight at the Maryborough Energy Breakthrough event. The students built and designed the carts and worked in teams to successfully complete the endurance trial.

‘The Sizzler’ team completed 321 laps and ‘Great Scott’ team completed 391 laps beating their score of 344 from last year. 2:37min was fastest lap of the 1.58km track, which was also the very last lap of the race!  

We would like to thank Kwik Kopy and Mulcahy and Co. for their generous support of our teams. We hope to continue to have their sponsorship in 2020 and achieve an even better result

Tegan Crosbie