South Dakota Mines Student engineering design team dedicated to re-engineering snowmobiles to reduce emissions, noise, and improve engine efficiency.
Building CLEAN is our specialty! 🧼💪 The SDSM&T Clean Snowmobile Team is a student design team that is a part of the Center for Advanced Multidisciplinary Projects (CAMP). This year, we are building a diesel powered snowmobile to compete in the annual SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge which takes place the first week of March each year in Houghton, Michigan. The premise for the competition is to devel
04/01/2026
Final results from competition came in a few weeks ago! We also got some awesome pictures. We placed 6th overall, with 1st place in both fastest acceleration and the technical presentation.
Many thanks to all that helped organize and run this year’s Advanced Snowmobile competition.
02/12/2026
Another successful year at competition in Eagle River, WI! We placed first in acceleration and are still waiting on overall placement. Great job team!
11/26/2024
BIG thank you to Four Seasons for hosting us at SnoFest in Deadwood this weekend! We are incredibly grateful for their generosity in allowing us to raffle off a generator to help fundraise for our team. Your support means a lot to us!
11/19/2024
It’s been a productive month for our team! We’ve successfully rebuilt our new snowmobile and are now working on emissions testing, handling improvements, and noise reduction. To celebrate, we had an awesome team bowling session this past Saturday!
11/13/2024
Recap of the 2024 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge!! The team ran into some complications and did not receive a score, but received invaluable feedback from the judges and other teams. The team is on track to compete in Eagle River, WI in February 2025 with a brand new Polaris INDY 650 XC 129!
08/26/2022
Thanks to every one who showed up to our booth at the Org fair this morning! We had a great turnout, also thanks to everyone who came out to hardrockers at summer nights downtown, was a great time!
04/22/2022
Oil pan is welded and ready to go back on the engine!
04/07/2022
Got our oil pan chopped and prepped for welding in order for it to fit with our new engine!
11/25/2021
Happy thanksgiving from our team to you! Wishing every one safe travels!🦃
11/22/2021
Last Friday we had the opportunity to set up a booth for the RCAS 8th grade career fair to help promote college and stem degrees. It was a great success to say the least.
11/04/2021
Our team has been hard at work designing new engine mounts and a new oil pan these past few workdays so we can optimize space in the engine bay. Looking forward to getting the engine mounted!