Australian International Model Solar Car Challenge (AIMSCC)

Over the last sixteen years tens of thousands of Australian high school and primary students have participated in this hands-on science program. Each student experiences the excitement of competition and, almost without knowing it, fills his or her mind with knowledge.

The competitive spirit is an effective motivator and science, engineering and design & technology teachers all over Australia have classes filled with extraordinarily enthusiastic students building model solar cars and boats. Not only is the learning fun but the learning outcomes are tremendous. Teachers report how students motivated by the competition build an intuitive knowledge of the sciences that permeates the classroom.

Cars are run on a track that it almost 100 metres and in the form of the number 8. There are two guide channels than run around the track in which cars are forced to create steering mechanisms so that they can be navigated around the track and obtain the quickest time possible.