UW-Madison's College of Engineering students' snowmobile design won them a gold medal for keeping the environment in mind at the 2006 Society of Automotive Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge. The contest, held March 13 through 18 and hosted by Michigan Tech, asked teams of engineering students to take a stock snowmobile and reconfigure it to reduce emissions and noise. UW-Madison's four-stroke Polaris won the emissions category and went on to achieve an overall first-place ranking. The competition is not just for fun, however; Jack Evanoff, Yellowstone National Park's environmental manager, said that since the first contest seven years ago, snowmobile emissions have plummeted,\ according to a University press statement.
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