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Welding student Jesse Sedler
clears the frame he welded and helped design for launch
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UMCOT Students Prepare for Shell EcoMarathon
A team of students
representing The University of Montana College of Technology are diligently
preparing for the 2012 Shell EcoMarathon to be held in Houston Texas March 29th
– April 1st. The team is comprised of students representing all
three campuses with Environmental Studies majors and Welding majors joining the
Energy Technology students. This is the first such entry from the UMCOT, but
they have hopes to place well in the solar division, which requires that teams
collect more energy than they consume during the six-mile race. “We could not
have gotten this far without some major space donations from local businesses,”
says Energy Technology Program Director, Bradley Layton. “We are extremely
fortunate to live in a community that has a true sense of unity. We have also
benefitted from the resources available to us at the Montana Enterprise
Center.” Stay tuned for more news as the project progresses…
