EDWARDSVILLE, Ill., July 31 -- Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville issued the following news release:
"Working for 20 to sometimes40 hoursa week designing and buildingourcarOrion, we'vegone camping together, we do game nights, and then going to the event where we are traveling together for like a week and a half-we haveformed a lot ofreally strong bonds between all of the members in our solar car team," shared Henry Jones, a mechanical engineering graduate who graduated this past May and the President of SIUE'sSolarRacingTeam.
ForKevin Van Hesen,an alumnusof the Netherlands-based team, it was his first time in the United States. "Amidst all the logistic processes with the car and the journey that our team has had, it has been worth...