EDWARDSVILLE, Ill., July 17 -- Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville issued the following news release:
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Solar Racing Team was featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ahead of the team's return to national competition for the first time in years. The article details the team's preparation for the American Solar Challenge, a multiday, 1,500-mile road race from Minneapolis to Amarillo, Texas, beginning July 25.
Theroughly 25-memberstudent team hand-built a new solar car, named Orion,largely fromscratch, including hand-soldering their own solar panels - a practice few competing programs still undertake. The team, which qualified for the Formula Sun Grand Prix last summer after years away fr...