Outreach
Mission:
To influence the next generation of automobile users by introducing them to efficient, economical, and environmental technologies that may power their future cars so that they will become more self-conscience of their energy usage in the future.
About Our Program:
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle team often extends its hands to Centre County and the surrounding communities to teach about exciting new technologies available in the automotive industry. The events that they hold range from small classroom presentations to displays allowing interaction with thousands of people.
At Penn State, our outreach team is focused on educating the general public and K-12 students. Our goals for both group include:
- To increase public awareness of the EcoCAR competition and Penn State AVT team.
- To have our target audience view new eco-friendly and sustainable technologies as viable alternatives to traditional technologies, with the EcoCAR competition as a resource for education in the field of sustainable mechanical engineering.
- To have the Penn State community visibly aware of the Penn State AVT team and EcoCAR Challenge.
- To increase the amount of students and community members who pledge to go green.
- To challenge students in K-12 to maintain an environmental and sustainable life.
- To challenge students in K-12 to become involved in engineering, math, and science within their school and community.
Most events are designed to be inviting to all demographics and provide information that everyone can understand. For those seeking more information though, the team always has a handful of trained experts ready to answer questions and go into detail on the more complicated subjects.
Photos from the team’s outreach events are hosted at Photobucket. You can view our photos at Photobucket, or subscribe to our photo RSS feed to keep up to date. Photos are also hosted on our Flikr page. A summary report of all our events including some photos is available here (MS word). We also provide a list of all our outreach events from the competition listed by year which can be found in the drop down menu of the Outreach section of the top navigation bar. You will find a short description listed as well as a more detailed report available for download as a pdf.
Upcoming events include:
Penn State v. Ohio State Tailgate 11/7/2009 at 8:00a.m., location TBD
State High Int. Chem/Physics Classes 11/20/2009
*To see a list of all past events and to get a short summary check the Outreach Reports page.
Know Something We Don’t?
If you know of any events that you would like to share with us or would like to talk to us about organizing an event we would love to hear from you. Also if you saw us at an event and have any feedback or comments we’d love to hear them as well, please email us at outreach@hev.psu.edu . We look forward to hearing from you!
