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8/6/2004

Physics teacher Brian Kellogg has offered electric car building projects for a couple of years. This year during Project Period "Team Electrathon" started a battery-powered motorcycle. The thing was radically modified by his physics students after the Advanced Placement exam in May. Then Buildings & Grounds Director Will Ames had a vision and assigned Graham Cullen '01 to make the bike rock. Graham finished up this morning.

Graham is a mechanical genius who wants to teach at Proctor someday (he's a junior at Clarkson) and "Green Lightening" is now a chopper capable of 25 miles per hour.

A faux gas tank adds panache, and the plan calls for a professional air-brush paint job before the thing debuts at next June's motorcycle weekend in Laconia. In the meantime, Brian didn't turn many heads when he rode Green Lightening in the Fourth of July parade.

Team Electrathon member Charlie Cloutier '04 armed with Rustoleum back during Project Period.
Graham installs a fake tank that will be painted with electric bolts, etc.
The batteries can be charged using photovoltaic panels, so it's a solar-powered motorcycle. Brian likes the fact so many people have been a part of its evolution.
Meanwhile, Graham has made extensive modifications to an electric Gator.
You want to be careful not to be apprehended driving one of the school's golfcarts on town roads or sidewalks....
....like Maintenance veteran Bill Matuvelich yesterday.