H2GP Sprint Curriculum
While the 12 month access to H2GP Sprint curriculum is included with our Classroom Pack and Launch Bundle, it is also available as a stand-alone purchase. This innovative curriculum covers 30+ hours of classroom time, giving students an understanding of hydrogen fundamentals, climate change, and fuel cell electrical systems.
The curriculum is a perfect complement to our hands-on SPRINT kits that provides students with a comprehensive understanding of hydrogen production, storage, and use.
The curriculum is available through a cloud-based, global server, meaning students and educators can access the content from anywhere, on-demand.
Unleash Innovation with the H2GP SPRINT Curriculum
Our one-of-a-kind SPRINT Car Kits are complemented by an innovative curriculum delivering an understanding of not only hydrogen fundamentals and fuel cell electrical systems, but also the basic laws of physics, collecting experimental data, and discovering core scientific principles.
After students build their very own hydrogen car, the curriculum offers them an extended course to test their prototype, investigate different solutions, and measure the impact of these solutions using real-time data. After they refine their design, students are able to continually innovate, updating their car design to get the best possible track times against their peers.
The SPRINT curriculum is a perfect complement to the hands-on learning component of our car kits. It provides students with an in-depth understanding of the impact of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions on climate change, hydrogen production methods, and the environmental advantages of hydrogen fuel.
The curriculum is available through a cloud-based, global server, meaning students and educators can access the content from anywhere, on-demand.
Step 1: Measure
Racing H2GP SPRINT cars is immensely fun, but the curriculum allows students to take this fun a step further. Kids are given the opportunity to analyze data in real-time to continuously improve their car and boost performance.
Measuring the car’s performance involves discovering what makes each individual car faster or slower and investigating the reasons for differences in performance before charting these on graphs and other analytical tools. This gives kids the chance to link their hands-on engineering skills with the car to subjects like trigonometry, graph theory and data science.
Step 2: Refine
Once students get an idea of how to measure their car’s performance, the next stage is refining their car with the data they have.
This involves altering things like weight distribution, lubricants, and axel materials to discover what refinements work best in maximizing car performance. Once students change one variable, they can return to measuring the performance of the car and tracking different solutions to continually optimize their car’s efficiency and operation.
Step 3: Design
Once students are confident making iterative design changes by measuring the car’s performance, students have the option to extend their creativity and design skills.
This means redesigning the car chassis with the help of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) or producing their own unique car body. Using the knowledge and skills they gained from stages 1 and 2, students now become the designers, manufacturers, and producers of their own unique hydrogen vehicle!