Month: April 2009

Santa Cruz

The CalSol team had a lot of fun in Santa Cruz showing the car to local high school students and others interested in solar technology. We spent Friday and Saturday at Soquel High School in Santa Cruz and did a quick talk on the KSCO AM 1080 radio station. You can read about the event …

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Cal Day and Santa Cruz

Thanks to everyone who made the hike up to Etcheverry Hall on Cal Day to check out the new car! It’s always fun when we get to show off our hard work, and everyone on our team was excited by the large turnout and interest in our project. I’d also like to give a shout …

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Distance Education and Cal Day

CalSol thanks Distance-Education.org, provider of information on online and other distance education programs, for their support of the team as a sponsor. Remember to check out their website and those of our other sponsors to see the organizations and companies which have helped our team to succeed. As you can tell from our last few …

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The Array is On!

Last weekend we attached the photovoltaic panels to the shell. It’s pretty exciting to see how much simply adding the panels changes the whole look of the shell. There is still a fair amount of work to do: all the solar panels still need to be wired together and we also need to do some …

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