What
Is The Energy Breakthrough?
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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 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.
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 isnŐt
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.

Aims:
- 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’ dominatedarea 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.
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