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Summer Update

By
Lewis, Adam Christopher (S&T-Student)
 on August 1, 2009 9:59 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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.  

Education, Energy, and Environment

By
Daniel Welty
 on February 10, 2009 4:28 PM | | Comments (0)

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.

Now: Back to Rolla

By
Lance Feyh
 on July 22, 2008 9:25 PM | | Comments (11)

Oh Canada
We played all night
I really hate to leave you now
But to stay just wouldn't be right.

-- Neil Young (again)

Well, Michigan won the race. Principia finished a game second. Missouri S&T placed seventh, behind Calgary. The Germans, Waterloo and Minnesota came in third through fifth in some order. (Iowa State and a bunch of others finished behind S&T.)

Tomorrow (Wednesday), the S&T team will already be on the road back to Rolla. Fortunately, however, they are taking a different and (probably) more scenic route back: thru Montana. Meanwhile, we are going to jump on a big jet airplane and fly to St. Louis via Chicago.

Calgary is a big city that reminds us of the Pacific Northwest, without the water. Flannel seems appropriate right now, even in July. The University of Calgary was home to some events during the Olympic Games. Today we saw the Olympic flame and the oval where speed skating took place.

We might get a chance to put some kind of fitting wrap on this blog tomorrow or in the coming days. Or maybe that would just be overkill? Right now, our solar brothers (and sisters? we need some female team members!) are busy contemplating and celebrating a successful journey from Texas to Winnipeg to Moose Jaw to Calgary. We're sure the stories they now have to tell will last until they're old and embarrassingly successful and new sources of energy are available to all.

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