HOUGHTON COUNTY -- Clarkson University was the overall winner in the 12th Annual Clean Snowmobile Challenge held over the past week at Michigan Tech's Keweenaw Research Center.
Clarkson took top prize in the internal combustion category and third place in the zero emissions category.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison took second, with Idaho, SUNY Buffalo, and The University of Wisconsin-Platteville rounding out the top five overall.
The local team, Michigan Tech, was sixth overall.
The Clean Snowmobile Challenge is a collegiate design competition of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Engineering students from participating schools take a stock snowmobile and re-engineer it with the goal of reducing emissions and noise while maintaining or boosting performance.
The challenge also has a division for battery-powered sleds, which is the zero emissions category.
Seventeen teams competed in the event, including five in the zero emissions category.
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