Brainstorming Session
Team Kids4Hydrogen met to discuss plans for each new chapter. They developed information packets and documents for new chapters that are opening across the United States!
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Day 10: Returning Mercedes F-Cell to Palo Alto
Natalie drove the F-Cell and handed it off to Raymond Lee. The team L0VED driving the Mercedes F-Cell and will buy fuel cell cars when they are available in 2015! Thank you to Michael Schweizer and Lora Renz for making their Mercedes F-Cell available to us for our 10-day tour!
Day 9: 10-Day Tour Party!
After planning this tour for over a year, the kids watched the 10-day H2 tour slideshow in Merit’s theater with the Kids 4 Hydrogen team and their families. They devoured a delicious teriyaki chicken dinner and yummy carrot cake! Enjoying a delicious BBQ dinner before the slideshow! Great closure — lots…
Day 9: Joe Jordan cheers on Kids 4 Hydrogen!
Joe Jordan, the NASA scientist who introduced Merit Academy students to hydrogen fuel cell technology in February 1997, visits the Kids 4 Hydrogen team in Santa Cruz to cheer them on! He traveled with the Merit Academy team to Humboldt State in 1997 to meet engineers who taught the students about…
Day 9: Pacific Garden Mall in Santa Cruz
After traveling over 1200 miles on our 10-day tour, we loved arriving in Santa Cruz — headquarters for Kids 4 Hydrogen! Friends and family met us on the Pacific Garden Mall where we conducted our last demonstration and Q&A. Michael Beck gave an interview with KSBW, Channel 8, and Rebecca Fang…
Day 8: The Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley
Today’s event was the biggest hit yet! Rebecca Fang did a bilingual interview with SinoVision TV in Mandarin and English! She also spoke to a Chinese newspaper reporter. We hope that our message gets across to an international audience! KTVU Channel 2 (San Jose) interviewed Nick Mercadante. Michael Beck, Natalie Kassel,…
Fueling up at the Emeryville Station
The Kids 4 Hydrogen team met Raymond Lee, Mercedes R&D, at the Emeryville H2 Station twice on the northern California tour. They learned how to pump H2 into the F-Cell and watched a fleet of H2 and CNG buses come and go.
Day 7: San Francisco
Heads were turning as the team drove the F-Cell over the Golden Gate Bridge, down Lombard Street, along the Embarcadero to the Exploratorium, Pier 39, and Fisherman’s Wharf. They even stopped by Ghirardelli Square where they met German tourists who appreciated their efforts in “catching up” to German advances with fuel…
Day 6: State Capitol, Sacramento
The team enjoyed talking to well-educated policymakers. They discussed political issues about oil companies and fracking for natural gas (CNG) at the Capitol Building. They even sat in on a Calif Air Resources Board meeting at the EPA building!
Day #5: Rest and Recuperation
Team members enjoyed the day back in Santa Cruz and Los Altos where they slept, rested and rejuvenated.