Missouri S&T Solar Car Team http://solar42.mst.edu/ News and updates from the Missouri S&T Solar Car Team. en-us Copyright 2009 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:59:49 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Summer Update
Car Showings: 
This summer has provided several opportunities for the Solar Car to catch some rays.

Rolla Summerfest
Soon after the spring semester ended the Solar Miner VI was back on the road.  In the first week of June we were able to reach out to the community and allow them to see what it really takes to build a solar car.  In this picture is Clinton Guenther and Christina Jung talk with the crowd about the past, present and future of the solar car.
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Kansas City Student Send-Off Party
This July we traveled to Lee's Summit help show our support for the students of Missouri S&T as well as our great Alumni Association.  Here you can see the displays set up and a few members preparing for the event to start.
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Summer Aerospace Camp
The last 2 weeks of July we were invited to show the car to several groups of inquisitive campers as well as provide solar panels for other activities.  The groups were given the opportunity to see a solar car up close, ask questions and even pretend to drive it.

Solar Miner VII: 
Despite the summer months, work on Solar Miner VII still continues.  So far we have several body designs to work with thanks to Andrew Sourk.  SM VII will be powered by Sunpower A300 cells and will be using batteries to be donated by Kokam America to store the power.

A special thanks to Sourk and Kokam for their contributions.  
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http://americansolarchallenge.org/event/nasc2010/tech/NASC2010Regs20090505.pdf

As these are an initial revision, questions and comments are encouraged by NASC.
]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/05/regulations_announced.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/05/regulations_announced.html NASC News 2010 NASC regulations Tue, 05 May 2009 10:47:07 -0600 Earth Day As part of Missouri S&T's annual Earth Day celebrations, we had Solar Miner VI out in front of the Havener Center and let the kids get in it. We also had two students, Adam Lewis and Cody Massar, showing off an older car at the Missouri Energy Summit in Columbia.

Clinton Guenther with kids.
Clinton Guenther showing off the car.
]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/04/earth_day.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/04/earth_day.html Car Showings Earth Day Solar Miner 6 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:08:57 -0600 Engineering Advisory Board On Friday Cody Massar and Daniel Welty, along with two members from the Solar House Team, Luke Sudkamp and Cory Brennan, and Dr. Hirtz, the Interim Director of the Center, presented during the lunch for the University's Engineering Advisory Board.  We discussed how both teams work to improve systems related to renewable energy problems. Covering production, storage, use, and optimization, the presentation went very well. Some of the members attending included high ranking officers of both the University and well know corporations.

Cody Massar talks to Bob Kruse from General Motors about the Solar Car.
]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/03/engineering_advisory_board.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/03/engineering_advisory_board.html Car Showings News engineering Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:29:30 -0600 Education, Energy, and Environment The whole University of Missouri system has recently become very focused on becoming "Green," especially here at Missouri S&T. The E3 program is the result of this. We of course are happy to see the name recycled from our second car, E-Cubed, that raced in 1995. It was our last attempt at a composite chassis, and was destroyed unceremoniously after its competition. As our heaviest car, we decided to never use that much epoxy again. Consequently Solar Miner weighed half as much.

As part of this, we will be attending the Energy Summit at Mizzou on April 22nd and 23rd. More information about that can be found here.

P.S. I like our logo better.

]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/02/education_energy_and_environme.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/02/education_energy_and_environme.html Solar Car education energy enviroment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:28:32 -0600 Final Phon-A-Thon Results http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/02/final_phonathon_results.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/02/final_phonathon_results.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon results Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:30:37 -0600 Monday's Results To start off the second and last week of Phonathon this year, the night's total donations were $535. This brings the total to $16,558. In case you were wondering, we did not call last night because of the Super Bowl. http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/02/mondays_results.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/02/mondays_results.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon results Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:49:42 -0600 Thursday's Results To finish up the first week of calling, we received $450 in pledges. The week's total was $16,023. Clearly as we are over halfway through, we have gotten most of the pledges, so the nightly totals will not be as high.]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/thursdays_results.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/thursdays_results.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon results Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:20:16 -0600 Wednesday's Results ]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/wednesdays_results.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/wednesdays_results.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon results Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:34:55 -0600 Tuesday's Snowy Results http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/tuesdays_snowy_results.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/tuesdays_snowy_results.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon results Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:39:18 -0600 Monday Phonathon http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/monday_phonathon.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/monday_phonathon.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon results Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:26:49 -0600 Sunday's Results ]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/sundays_results.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/sundays_results.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon results Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:50:54 -0600 Phone-A-Thon 2009 solar1@mst.edu.

Team members, your training will be Tuesday, January 20 at 6:00pm in Civil 125.

Links to most of the old newsletters going back over a decade have been added here.
]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/phoneathon_2009.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2009/01/phoneathon_2009.html Sponsors Phone-A-Thon Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:36:07 -0600 Date Change for Formula Sun ]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2008/12/date_change_for_formula_sun.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2008/12/date_change_for_formula_sun.html Formula Sun Race Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:16:12 -0600 Interim SDELC Director Named Dr. Paul Hirtz was recently named the Interim Director for Student Design and Experiential Learning Center.  He was the Assistant Director under Dr. Stone until Stone retired earlier this summer.

Hirtz is an alumni of the team, serving as Team President from 1997-1999, and working on both Solar Miner 1 and 2.  He currently works as an official for the North American Solar Challenge, helping most recently with the 2008 race.

The press release can be found at: ]]> http://solar42.mst.edu/2008/12/interim_sdelc_director_named.html http://solar42.mst.edu/2008/12/interim_sdelc_director_named.html News Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:09:43 -0600