The Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team is an internationally competitive solar race team. As a Student Design Team, we have built 10 cars since 1988. Midnight Sun designs, builds, and races a new solar car every two years, with over 200 students contributing to building each car. We compete in two major international solar car competitions: the World Solar Challenge, held in Australia, and the North American Solar Challenge. Our next competition is the World Solar Challenge 2011, which runs from October 16th-23rd. This is a 3,000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide, across the Australian desert.
The Midnight Sun Solar Race Car team consists of three core groups – electrical, mechanical and business. Midnight Sun offers students an opportunity to receive hands-on experience, which is not offered in class. With over 200 students contributing to each generation of the car, there is lots of opportunity to network with other students. The students dedicate time as they can, with the ability to take on small 1 or 2 day tasks, or larger projects as their free time allows. There are also social events: we occasionally go to dinners together and celebrate birthdays.
The Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team has been featured on television several times. We have been featured on the Discovery Channel, TSN, and many other news programs. We are one of Canada’s premier solar race car teams. Our team also holds a Guinness World Record. In 2004, our 7th generation Midnight Sun Solar Race Car set the world record for longest travelled distance by a solar car. The car travelled a distance of 15,070 km (9,364 miles) through Canada and the United States.
We would like to thank our sponsors, coordinators, advisers and all the students involved for making our 10th generation of Midnight Sun Solar Race Car a possibility.
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