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Chem-E-Car teammates Brett Bertini, Jared Strauss, and Jash Patel
Chem-E-Car Team Wins Regionals The UF Chem-E-Car Design Team won the competition at the 2021 Southern Student Regional (Virtual) Conference on March 26-28, 2021. The team advanced to the Annual Student conference held at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston on Nov. 6-7, 2021. “Winning 1st place in the regional competition was truly a team effort from all of our design leads,” said Emerick Gilliams, UF ChE undergraduate student and 2021 technical captain and electrical team lead.
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The Chem-E-Car competition teaches students how to safely work with chemicals, build electrical systems, write code, and construct mechanical chassis. The UF Chem-E-Car is divided into four teams—the Power, Stopping, Electrical, and Mechanical. Together they build a small, handheld car that is powered and stopped by chemical reactions. They compete in regional and national competitions hosted by AIChE. At the competition, a judge announces a distance and specifies a weight that the car must carry. The team whose car gets closest to the announced distance after two rounds wins the competition. “The main component of our victory was due to the significant improvement from the previously designed
