After a long couple of years and a seemingly endless couple of weeks, the team rolled into Calgary yesterday for an 8th place finish overall. We'd like to thank everyone who helped us build this car, and a special thanks to all the race officials who kept telling us to 'finish the car already!' during qualifiers because they knew that it could be great. For any of you who have seen the car firsthand, we also won the aesthetics award today or 'Prettiest Car Award' as Dan Eberle put it. We like to pride ourselves on making ourselves and our cars look as professional as possible, so this was a great honor.
The finish in Calgary was spectacular, with the entire University of Calgary campus filled with celebratory decorations and interested locals. All of the teams swapped t-shirts yesterday and today to help commemorate the race. Today was the final banquet where individual awards were handed out. Along with the aesthetics award, the team also received the 'Going, Going, Going' award from the observer group, for our hard work through qualifiers and the race to compete and advance in the competition. We're currently on the road, using internet from Verizon! Just coming up on a line of Mountains in Montana and about to stop for the night in Great Falls, MT. Please post comments or questions and we'll try to fill in some of the details! Thanks again for all of your support! (you can also email me at solarcar@prisum.org)
-Sarah
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Welcome back to the States! Glad you all made it (especially Erin!)\
-Justin
Congratulations and well done!
How about some of pictures of the prettiest car? I spent way too much time looking for you guys in the background of other team’s photos.
P.S. Minnesota had pics of them disassembling your motor… what’s up with that?
This is ryan E great job on making it to the finish.
I stopped by the garage yesterday but you werent back yet :(
Congratulations to all of you. Great job. Even with all the problems that you guys had, all of you prevailed. GO PRISUM..!!!
We switched motors at the beginning of the race--the one from fusion was...dropped...and MN thought it might just be a sensor out of place. They had a nice setup for taking apart the motor and so one night we stopped at the same place and they helped us out with it. Still need to do some work to see if we can fix it or if it needs to be sent off to NGM. We should be back in Ames sometime Friday!
Sarah
Congratulations on a successful race! :-)
Congratulations on a great (and safe) race. Well done!!!
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