World Championship Stories: Perseverance

Title: Shell Eco-marathon: Stories from the World Championship - Perseverance
Duration: 05:09

Description: Three different teams share their Shell Eco-marathon perseverance stories with Rishabh Chopra.

Sask Eco UC, ENSEM and Wawasee Gold – Accessibility Transcript

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Rishabh Chopra
ETCA Digital Innovation Lead - Shell

Rishabh intro:
Welcome to the Shell Eco-marathon World Championship 2023, here in Bangalore, India where the

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Changemakers of Tomorrow

Rishabh:
Changemakers of Tomorrow have come together to design, build, test-drive and race some of the most energy-efficient vehicles. But, it's not all about winning! The spirit of the competition has given rise to some truly amazing stories. To show you what I mean, let's meet the teams who've

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Perseverance

Rishabh:
harnessed the power of perseverance.

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Stories from the
Shell Eco-marathon
World Championship

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Sask Eco UC
Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Canada

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Tyson Church
Sask Eco UC

Tyson:
My name is Tyson Church, and we are Sask Eco.

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Rishabh:
You qualified for the World championship, thought you had everything organised. And then your main driver could not get a visa to travel to India, but you persevered.

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Tyson:
So, it was a little bit of a scramble just before heading off,

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Tyson voice-over:
but we managed to pull everyone and everything together to make it here.

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Rishabh:
That's amazing, but on such short notice, how did you get things back on track?

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Tyson:
I was originally actually the reserve driver when we were in Indianapolis,

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Tyson voice-over:
and so having Lindon unable to drive, I was then

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Tyson voice-over:
brought forward to be the main driver here in India at the World Championships. Fortunately,

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Tyson:
I put a GoPro inside the car when we were in Indianapolis. And so I was able to

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Tyson voice-over:
watch some of the footage of Linden driving and

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Tyson voice-over:
so, I was able to study how he drove and just before taking off to India,

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Tyson voice-over:
I’d met with Linden. We spent an evening

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Tyson voice-over:
chatting about how to drive the car, what to

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Focus on how to shift

Tyson voice-over:
focus on, how to shift properly

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Tyson:
and really going over every aspect we could think of.

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Rishabh:
Tell me more about the GoPro recording that you saw from the regional competition of your main driver, what specifics did you focus on to quickly learn?

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Tyson:
I was focusing on how he was doing his

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Burn and coast

Tyson voice-over:
burn and coast, specifically how he was doing

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Shifting

Tyson voice-over:
shifting. That was a big part of

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Listening to the engine

Tyson voice-over:
listening to when the engine wanted to shift as we don't have a tachometer in our vehicle.

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Tyson:
So, yeah, it was a lot to learn on a short notice.

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ENSEM
École Nationale Supérieure d’Électricité et de Mécanique
France

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Rishabh:
Perseverance has really paid off for your team in Shell Eco-marathon.

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Rishabh:
Why is that?
Léo-Paul:
We are running

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Léo-Paul:
for Shell Eco-marathon

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Léo-Paul Carré
ENSEM

Léo-Paul:
since twenty five years. It has been a long way to be here in the World Championship.

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
We are

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Improving this car for 11 years

Léo-Paul voice-over:
improving this car for eleven years.

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Léo-Paul:
We started with

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Aluminum frame

Léo-Paul:
just an aluminum frame,

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Materials from the bin

Léo-Paul voice-over:
made from materials that were from

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
the bin. We try to improve the same car

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More sustainable

Léo-Paul:
because it’s more sustainable. We don’t need to

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
make another car if this one can be improved.

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Rishabh:
Has it been challenging to improvise on your vehicle when it comes to the development of technology over the years?

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Léo-Paul:
Yeah, it's a

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Léo-Paul:
challenge because

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Léo-Paul:
we need to identify what is wrong in our current

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
vehicles and test which part, which components

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
may be improved. So, it's a

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Léo-Paul:
story

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Research

Léo-Paul:
of research,

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Perseverance

Léo-Paul:
perseverance

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
to test everything

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Save money

Léo-Paul voice-over:
in order to save money.

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Rishabh:
Do you have any word of advice for the other Shell Eco-marathon teams about keeping going when the times are tough?

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Léo-Paul:
I have two advice, one for the competition -

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
when you think that you can’t do it - it’s wrong.

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Everything is possible

Léo-Paul:
Everything is possible in the competition.

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
You never give up. The other

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Léo-Paul:
advice is for
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Innovation

Léo-Paul:
innovation,

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You can improve your vehicle, when you have few means

Léo-Paul voice-over:
you can improve your vehicle

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
when you have few means.

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
Never give up again because it's

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Ideas make you a good challenger

Léo-Paul:
ideas that make you a

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Léo-Paul voice-over:
good challenger and not resources.

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Rishabh:
I think you're doing an amazing job and also

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Rishabh:
setting the standard. Thank you so

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Rishabh:
much.

Léo-Paul:
Thank you.

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Wawasee Gold
Wawasee High School
USA

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Keegan Hurst
Wawasee Gold

Keegan:
My name's Keegan Hurst and I'm a part of the Wawasee Gold team.

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Rishabh:
You're a high school team that has a really great example of perseverance when it comes to sponsorship.

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Keegan:
We spent actually a lot of time going out and getting sponsorships for our team.

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Sponsorships are really important

Keegan voice-over:
Sponsorships are really important for us.

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Keegan:
because without them we would not be able to build

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Keegan voice-over:
our car and be able to come here and compete.

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Rishabh:
How did you go about raising the money?

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Keegan:
It's really cool - us as high schoolers

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Keegan:
learning actually how to go out into the community

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Keegan voice-over:
and

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Learn how to pitch

Keegan voice-over:
learn how to pitch ourselves and tell them like

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This is who we are are we’re trying to achieve

Keegan voice-over:
this is

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Keegan voice-over:
who we are and what we're trying to achieve. It's really

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Positive feedback

Keegan voice-over:
awesome seeing their positive feedback to us.

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Rishabh:
And how did people respond to your request for sponsorship?

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Keegan:
We actually get a lot of positive feedback.

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Rishabh:
How much did you raise?
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Keegan:
So we actually ended up

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Raising $20,000

Keegan:
raising almost $20,000.

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Rishabh:
Well, that's really amazing. You don't just have a good team, but also the right backing with the stakeholders

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Rishabh voice-over:
you’ve onboarded.

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Rishabh:
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