What is the RACV Energy Breakthrough?

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The RACV Energy Breakthrough is an exciting program designed to provide opportunities for students, teachers, parents and local industry to work together to design and construct a vehicle, a machine or innovation in technology that will represent an 'energy breakthrough'. 

It began in 1992 when the Country Education Project began seeking new ways to engage young people in regional Victoria with a wider range of challenges.

The program encourages participants to examine and use the latest technology while considering its impact on the environment and the way people live locally and globally. The RACV Energy Breakthrough isn’t just a once-a-year event! 

School groups work throughout the year to design, build and test vehicles or machines within detailed specifications. It requires a team effort and an across-the-curriculum approach. These groups then bring their vehicles and machines to Maryborough in November, for a huge celebration in which they can demonstrate and trial them in action. 

The Racv Energy Breakthrough is a joint initiative of the Country Education Project, the Central Goldfields Shire Council and the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV).

The Energy Breakthrough aims to...

Provide an excellent technology project for students from Prep to VCE level Encourage young people to explore solutions to environmental and transport issues Provide an opportunity for schools and communities to work and learn together Provide an opportunity for women and girls to participate in what has traditionally been a ‘male’ dominated area of the curriculum Be a fun program with real world challenges Offer students opportunities to explore and address vehicle design, driving skills and vehicle and passenger safety issues.

Event Credientials

The RACV Energy Breakthrough is...

• a WasteWise Event
• compliant with Local Government Occupational Health & Safety Regulations
• compliant with the requirements of the Victorian State Government's 'Working With Children' policies.