Only Seven Days Left to Vote – Help choose the DASH+ Winner Today!

We’re about to reach the finish line, and our teams need your votes in the final days of the contest. The DASH+ team is anxious to see which of the three semi-finalists has accrued the most votes.

Next week, our team will be hard at work combining the scores from the independent, expert panel of judges with the public voting tallies to see which team will be doing its victory lap in Detroit this summer.

We are just about finished planning the Grand Prize trip to Detroit. It’s going to be an incredible experience, and we’re excited to reward members of the winning team for all of their hard work.

Until then, the three semi-finalist teams need your votes to win, so be sure to continue voting. Let your family, friends and neighbors know to vote at http://fuelourfuturenow.com/contest once a day, every day through May 31.

I’d like to congratulate all three teams for a job well done and wish you all good luck in the final stretch!

--Mitch Aiken, Director of Education, Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE

Vote for Your Favorite DASH+ Semi-Finalist

We are almost at the halfway mark of online voting to determine the Grand Prize winner of DASH+! Many of you have already voted, but don’t forget that you are able to vote once every day through May 31 on the contest website.

If you haven’t voted yet, here is some information about each of the three semi-finalist teams:

DASH Tech from The Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn, MI. DASH Tech’s plan includes a feature that allows the driver to create a customizable 3D avatar that turns eco-friendly driving into a competition with friends and communicates how the driver’s behavior impacts fuel economy and the environment.

EDV Technologies from Dos Pueblos Senior High School in Santa Barbara, CA. Team EDV, which stands for El Diseño Verde, incorporates technology that continuously calculates maximum fuel economy based on previous performance of other vehicles on similar road conditions. The dashboard alerts the driver of environmental impact and awards GreenPoints, creating an eco-friendly competition.

Harker Innovation Team from The Harker School in San Jose, CA. The Harker Innovation Team proposed a tree-shaped speedometer, called eHEART, to track the driver’s environmental progress by calculating statistics such as added expenses from driving quickly and greater savings from regenerative breaking.

Your votes decide which team will win the Grand Prize to travel to Detroit this summer where they will have the opportunity to pitch their dashboard design to representatives from the automotive industry, receive feedback on their entry and meet the teams competing in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.

So visit http://fuelourfuturenow.com/contest to view all three teams’ designs, technical plans and videos and vote for your favorite.

—The DASH+ Team