Challenge X Team Leader Throws First Pitch!

Tennessee Challenge X team leader, Scott Curran, threw the first pitch for the UT Lady VOls Softball team for Earth Day.Before the first pitch the announcer talked about the Challenge X and UT Biodiesel program, the Revolution X was parked outside the stadium and Challenge X information was at the Make Orange Green Booth. At the top of each inning a green fact about UT was mentioned and during the top of one inning a "race" between cardboard cutout cars, one hybrid, one biodiesel, and one gasoline happened in the outfield with the biodiesel car winning the race and the hybrid in a close second.
Lady Vols Softball

Catholic High School Presentations and Ride and Drive

Team Leader Scott Curran Presented to 6 different physics, environmental studies and computer science students at Knoxville Catholic High School. After each presentation the class had an opportunity for a ride and drive. Students who answered questions during the presentation were awarded Team Tennessee Shirts or pens depending on who difficult the questions.

Oak Ridge Earth Day

Tennessee Challenge X and the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition partnered up to showcase the Revolution X and a Biodiesel Powered VW Beetle owned by DOE's Mark Downing at the Oak Ridge Earth Day celebration. Mark Downing and Team Leader Scott Curran were on site all afternoon to answer questions about biofuels and hybrids. Over 7000 people attended the festival.

Run for Clean Air

Challenge X not only participated in the 2008 Run For Clean Air as a display vehicle and with an informational booth but also was a race sponsor. The Challenge X logo appearers on the Run for Clean Air Website, the race day banners and the run shirts!. 343 runners registered for the race and many more turned up to support the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition (DOE Clean Cities).

Borg Warner Sponsor Event

Members from Team Tennessee drove to Asheville NC to the Borg Warner Turbocharger plant to present Brock Fraser and John Norton with awards for supporting the Tennessee Challenge X program. Team members recieved a tour of the plant and learned more about how turbo chargers are playing an important role in clean diesels and new direct injection spark ignition engines.

NCUR 22

Team Member, Wayne Ferguson, presented the SCR work from Team Tennessee at the 22nd annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research at Salisbury University in Salisbury Maryland. Wayne also submitted a paper to the conference proceedings which was accepted pending minor correction for publication.

EURCA AWARDS

Chance Donahue won one of the College of Engineering awards for best poster at the 2008 EURCA awards for the poster: Challenge X: SCR Retrofit for a hybrid application.