Highlights Of What We Accomplished Since The Last Update
- Saturday, January 18th
- CAD Training
- The CAD training has continued to progress well, with all six enrolled students meeting with Mrs. Davis on Saturday, January 18th.
- The last regularly scheduled CAD training class is scheduled for Saturday, February 1st
- Preparation of the team’s required CAD drawings to support the March 1st Solar Car Challenge registration filing will be the next focus.
- Solar Car Workshop
- Brian Rush, Shannon Caraway, and Morgan Caraway attended the workshop held at the DFW Marriott and heard a really good presentation on telemetry that was provided by the team captain’s from last year’s Okemos, Michigan team who had won the telemetry award in 2019.
- We picked up several good ideas for the telemetry system that we are trying to design for our cars this year (see photos below).
- Sunday, January 12th
- Team workday at the solar car shop – Jake, Zach, and Ryder met with Shannon and Brian and continued construction on the new car.
- We were able to develop a template for the new car’s upper instrument panel / front bulk head support structure, cut it out of aluminum, press brake it into the correct shape, and rivet it into place.
- The overall fit and finish was impeccable! Great job team!
