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Houghton College

Lauren Niswander

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HOUGHTON COLLEGE

SCIENCE HONORS PROGRAM

DRIVING FORCE FOR FUTURE

HOUGHTON, NY, December 17, 2012 – All 21 Houghton College Science Honors Program students participated on 4 teams, with a budget of $2,500 for their Go Kart competition in May.  Around 400 students gathered at the HC quad to witness these different engineered student kart projects compete.

 

The sunny May 1st Saturday event consisted of “A Parade of Progress” to introduce the vehicles as the college’s faculty represented in the vehicles. Professor Kenneth Bates came in first with ethanol, and then came Athletic Director Skip Lord with bio-diesel, President Shirley Mullen with solar, and Dr. Kelly Hijleh with hydrogen.

 

“This is fantastic,” said Dr. Mullen, the driver of the solar vehicle, “I think it has a future at Houghton.”



Shannon Ward and Nick Connello finished with a flawless victory.

 

“We figured ethanol would be the most competitive because we’ve had the most experience with it as a society,” Dr. Mark Yuly, professor of Physics and Departrment Chair for the Honors Program said.

 

Dr. Yuly joked, “One trip around the quad is payday for me.”