SYRACUSE — Although the Drivers World Challenge does not take place until early July in England, the super mileage car team at Wawasee High School has an even earlier deadline to meet. So, as termed by Allen Coblentz, the engineering teacher who oversees the team, it is the “final push” to get the diesel mileage …read more.

SYRACUSE — Twenty years of super mileage cars at Wawasee High School is a cause for celebration. After the Shell Eco-marathon competition April 3-6 at the Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., there is even more cause for celebration. For the first time ever, Wawasee’s diesel super mileage car, known as the “Diesel Weasel” and the …read more.

SYRACUSE — A crew of a little more than a dozen Wawasee High School students, under the watchful eye of engineering teacher Allen Coblentz, is busy putting the finishing touches on two super mileage cars. Diesel and electric powered cars will be entered in the Shell Eco-marathon annual competition April 3-6 at the Sonoma Raceway …read more.

SYRACUSE — Engineering students at Wawasee High School are learning how to tame and bring under control the highly combustible and flammable gas known as hydrogen. The super mileage car team overseen by teacher Allen Coblentz is working on a prototype hydrogen fuel cell car to enter in the Shell Eco-marathon April 18-23 at the …read more.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School engineering students, led by teacher Allen Coblentz, are preparing two super mileage cars for the annual Shell Eco-marathon April 26-30 on the streets of downtown Detroit. One of the cars, diesel powered, will have four wheels, is larger and will actually look a little closer to a real life car.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School entered diesel and ethanol super mileage cars in the 2016 Shell Eco-marathon in downtown Detroit the weekend of April 23.

SYRACUSE — For a couple of days, racing will be permissible on downtown streets in Detroit. And onlookers will cheer on teams competing in the annual Shell Eco-marathon near the Cobo Center.

SYRACUSE — Depending on one’s age, hearing the word “robot” could evoke memories of the evil machine gone terribly awry in a science fiction movie. But times do change and today robots are more often thought of in terms of something programmed to accomplish a certain task.

While some Wawasee High School students will head south during spring break to Florida, Texas, Alabama and possibly elsewhere, a few will travel to … Detroit. It’s not usually thought of as a spring break destination point, but this particular group of students will have business to take care of. The annual Shell Eco-marathon competition …read more.