NORTH WEBSTER — Involvement in the Wawasee High School super mileage team began for Scott Fox in 2012, when his oldest son got involved. In the super mileage team, students build cars or improve on them in order to get the best miles per gallon in the Shell Eco-marathon.

SYRACUSE — Forget jet lag. Any effects from flying home from the West Coast probably were set aside, at least temporarily anyway, when the Wawasee High School super mileage car team returned to the school a little after noon today, Monday, April 8. A school bus with a Syracuse Police escort pulled up in front …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 — Wawasee High School’s Supermileage program, as well as the school’s robotics team, competed on the world stage and proved world class with the robotics team emerging number one in the world. Through programs like supermileage and robotics at Wawasee High School, area students have the opportunity to learn how to manipulate technology and …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.

By ALLEN COBLENTZ Engineering and Technology Teacher, Wawasee High School The Wawasee Supermilage team successfully competed in the 2015 Shell Eco-Marathon over spring break. Three cars successfully completed the new road course in Detroit, bringing home two trophies and prize money. The gasoline vehicle placed 10th, obtaining 724 miles per gallon. The ethanol vehicle placed …read more.

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.

Wawasee High School will again enter competitions this year with super mileage cars worked on by engineering students. From April 24-27, Wawasee will enter gas and diesel cars in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition in Houston, Texas. Then, on April 28, it’s on to the Lucas Oil Raceway Park in Indianapolis for a competition with …read more.