Last year WT White students made DISD history when they built a solar car for the Dell-Winston Solar Challenge, which you may remember reading about here. The students are at it again this year, only now, they’ve set the bar even higher. Teammates now have their sights set on next year’s World Solar Challenge in Australia.
“ I am very proud of this group of kids for working as hard and as long as they do each day after school,” says physics teacher and team sponosor Louis Glover.
And that hard work is paying off. The team is about to compete in the Hunt-Winston School Solar Car Challenge, which goes from Dallas to Denver, CO. In order to qualify for that race, the students needed to build a car that reached 25 miles-per-hour. The car they built, however, was able to reach 40 miles-per-hour. They hope to get that speed even higher, near 55 miles-per-hour, within the next few weeks.
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