Icebox Derby features student-designed cars built from old refrigerators

CHICAGO (WLS) -- To help cultivate Chicago's young female innovators, ComEd, along with community partners Girls4Science, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana and the Chicago Urban league launched the first annual Icebox Derby with an official kick-off event July 9 at the Derby Garage in Chicago.

The Icebox Derby is an educational competition that provides female students the opportunity to gain real-world, hands-on experience through activities that bring to life the subjects they learn in school.