The TRYBRIB project shares many of the aims of the educational programs embodied in the Solar Boat Challenge and its sister program, the Hydrogen Car Challenge. Both these Australian schools programs aim to bring awareness, in a DYI experiential way, that is introducing the solar and hydrogen agendas to thousands of school kids. 
The programs give basic build components to the many and growing interested schools, with annual competitions organised to excite some competitive fun, as the new energies are deployed in small cars, and boats… both model and pilot-able.
At the end of the ‘experience’, those involved don’t just get an academic information hit, but also, the experiential wisdom that comes from ‘having been there’. And ‘being there’ means building a small solar boat, or a small hydrogen car, in team’s, ‘do-it yourself’ effort, followed by competitive deployment.
Take a look at the web sites for the Solar Boat Challenge, and the Hydrogen Car Challenge.
CEO Tim Levy and Event Director Angela Levy, together with Chairman Marcus Adler all share a vision of a new energy future, brought to our doors, through understanding and awareness.
TRYBRID’s Rod Davis hopes to add further educational interest at university levels in the not too distant future, with the aspiration that the TRYBRID, once launched, can provide a seagoing experience to the competition winners, providing the logical working example, that may have started, in younger years, with model making, through to pilot-able models used for older ages, and possible solar hydrogen leagues being added for tertiary grade use, before final graduation to a ride aboard the 120ft TRYBRID.
The film and TV production house that is part of these challenge’s core skill, will also be deployed to chart and record the efforts of these educational and awareness generating projects, with filming commencing at the World Hydrogen Energy Conference in June 2008, and tracking TRYBRID design and construction progress, at the same time as school projects are engages in the journey.
