Utah Student Receives President's Environmental Youth Award from EPA

EPA Press Release 10 February 2006

The President´s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) promotes local environmental awareness and inspires students to be a force within their communities. PEYA is the Environmental Protection Agency's way of encouraging students ages 5 through 18 to participate in a community project that has a positive environmental impact. Young people can work individually or in groups; each project requires a responsible adult sponsor. EPA will prepare a certificate signed by the President for each participant.

EPA will collect all applications submitted throughout the year and select a regional project as winner from grades K-12 for each of the ten EPA Regions. July 31 is the deadline for submitting applications, but they may be submitted throughout the year. 

Projects submitted in the past have covered a wide range of subjects including recycling programs in schools and communities; construction of natural preserves; major tree planting programs; environmental science projects; and videos, skits, and newsletters created by students that focused on environmental issues.

Buckeye Bullet recruit to receive President's Environmental Youth Award

Denver - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that Brent Singleton, a senior at Bonneville High School in Ogden, Utah and a recruit for the next Buckeye Bullet Land Speed Racing Team, has won the President's Environmental Youth Award.

In April, Singleton will travel to Washington, D.C., where he and PEYA winners from the Agency's other regions will meet President Bush in an award ceremony at the White House. Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni has invited Brent to visit Ohio State's Center for Automotive Research on the same trip east.

Jaws Jr. Bandimere Speedway Western Conference Finals

It went 84.72 mph in 1/8 mile July 29th, 2004

Brent is being honored as an emerging leader in electric vehicle design. For a science fair and Eagle Scout project, he purchased a dismantled hybrid vehicle from Weber State University and modified it. The result was the world's first hybrid land speed racer. He has raced the vehicle in hybrid and zero-emissions mode at the world famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah. Then, to help with his daily drive to school, he added solar panels and wind generators to recharge his 96-volt electric system while in class.

Read the entire EPA Press Release and see more photos of Brent and his amazing car at www.megawattmotorworks.com

Photos and info from Brent and Kent Singleton

Denver -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that Brent Singleton, a senior at Bonneville High School in Ogden, Utah, has won the President's Environmental Youth Award. In April, Singleton will travel to Washington, D.C., where he and PEYA winners from the Agency's other regions will meet President Bush in an award ceremony at the White House.

Singleton is being honored as an emerging leader in electric vehicle design. For a science fair and Eagle Scout project, he purchased a dismantled hybrid vehicle from Weber State University and modified it. The result was the world's first hybrid land speed racer. He has raced the vehicle in hybrid and zero-emissions mode at the world famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah. Then, to help with his daily drive to school, he added solar panels and wind generators to recharge his 96-volt electric system while in class. 

When Singleton travels to various racing venues, he uses his solar and wind-powered "Quadbrid" to tow his other race car -- the National Hot Rod Association's first electric-powered junior Dragster -- used in electric land speed racing. This Quadbrid tow-car and electro-dragster is the world's first fully sustainable race outfit.

 "Brent has done some amazing and innovative things with his vehicle modifications," said Robert E. Roberts, Regional Administrator for EPA's Region 8 office. "His cutting-edge cars are wonderful examples of applied science and engineering making a difference. Brent isn't just setting speed records, he is advancing the development of high-performance electric vehicles and raising public awareness about alternative fuels, sustainability and the ecological importance of places like the Bonneville Salt Flats."

Every year, each of EPA's ten regional Environmental Education offices select a PEYA winner to represent them at the national PEYA awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. Singleton will represent the Region 8 Environmental Education office. The awards have been presented annually since 1971 to honor students in kindergarten through twelfth grade who develop projects that help protect their environments and promote environmental awareness in their communities.