Day 1: Plantation, FL to Mobile, Alabama

Today we pulled out of our school at 5:15 AM. We drove through 2 giant storms, had a flat tire, and other small car troubles, but overall we had a good trip! We arrived to Mobile, AL at about 6:30 PM central time. We are all very excited about arriving to Texas tomorrow! We will keep everyone updated on our trip. Tell all of your friends to check us out! :P

As you can tell, there was a lot of sleeping going on in the cars today. ohhh and we caught Evan craddling his phone as he sleeps lol
With all of the rain we were actually able to use the ponchos that we got from our sponsor STS9! They're great! :) THANKS!
Well now we need to rest for another day of driving tomorrow.
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Packing for Texas

The team is set! Today is our last work day before we head towards Texas. We're packing all of our bags, tools, and everything else needed for the race. We just recieved our sponsor logos and are adhering them today before we load up the car in the trailer!
Friday morning we will be pulling out of Plantation, Florida and we will spend the night at Mobile, Alabama. And on Saturday morning we will drive to Ft. Worth ready for check-in and scrutineering on Sunday. :)
We would also like to wish all the other solarcar teams a safe trip to Ft.Worth and good luck racing! We can't wait to see everyone there! :)

Ben preping the sides to adhere the logos.

David packing things into crates.

Evan packing tables in the van

Jessica getting all of the ropes and bungies together.

Josh getting the tool box ready to take to Texas.

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Cow Chip Bingo!

Junior Achievement hosted an event called Cow Chip Bingo on April 10th.
We were invited to display Solar Knight III at the event filled with bounce houses, food, prizes and much more.
The Cow Chip Bingo fundraiser was centered around a cow "dropping it's chip" in a plot of land. The land was divided and each deed was sold for $20. A prize of $2500 was awarded to the owner of the plot where the cow "dropped it's chip" and some of the surrounding plots were awarded smaller prizes.
In the end, the cow dropped its chip in the section 62FF, which was very close to some of our very own deeds. :)
We had a great time at the event! Thank you junior Achievement!

Solar Day!

Today Ben, Valeria, and Evan took a fieldtrip to Junior Achievement to present Solar Knight III to a group of potential corporate sponsors. We were invited by Rob from AGT and had the amazing opportunity to share the work in progress. After displaying the car, we recieved a delicious breakfast provided by Junior Achievement. Thank You Rob and Junior Achivement!
We later met up with Kiwanis Club members for lunch at Duffy's. We showed off the car, ate lunch with the club, and discussed with the group about our amazing program. Thank You Kiwanis Club!
Now we are back at school working on the cars wooo!!
At 7 tonight we are having a parent meeting to discuss the race, who is planning on attending, and what we have to do to be as ready as can be.
Below are a few pictures of our Solar-filled day!

WORK! WORK! WORK!

It has been a very hectic month for the Solar Knights!
We have all been working very hard to make as much progress as we can on the cars, as well as raise all of the funds we need to race. We have also participated in as many outreach events as we can and have raised over $1000! But unfortunately, we are still in desperate need for much more to cover race expenses.
Today, we met with out major corporate sponsor, Rob K. from AGT, along with Lisa and Kathy who help organized the Winterfest Parade annually. They have given us great advice for fundraising and marketing our program to raise all of the funds needed. We greatly appreciate all of their support so far!
On Saturday afternoon the team will be at the Sam's Club Bloc Party to raise money and present our new car to our community!
Please come out to support and tell all of your friends and family to come as well!
Thank you everyone who has helped us so far!
We will have new pictures up soon!

Solar Updateeeee!

Hey everyone!
We've been very busy working on the cars which leaves us with minimal time to update the blog.
We have made a lotttt of progess in the past couple months!
There are new members joining alomost weekly and we are all very excited about the race in July!
Solar Knight II and III are almost in electric go-kart stage.
Here are a few pictures:


Ben welding the frame!


Evan angle griding!


We have been selling Otis Spunkmeyer cookies as a fundraiser!
They are deliciousssss!


Ben cutting foam for the bubble mock-up

Happyy Holidays!

Hey Everyone!
We just wanted to stop by and wish everyone a great winter break! We hope you had an amazing Christmas! The team is now on a small break, but we're all still planning and having work days whenever we can. Updating the blog has not been as often as we wish because we have all been veryyy busy working on the cars and planning for the race in July. We will soon post pictures for you guys to see all the process we have made!
Well, we all hope you have a happy new year, and enjoy your holiday season!

Here are some updates:
-Solar Knight II is slowly coming together for the race
-The McGill car is coming together as well
-Mr. Phipps had the honor to go to Washington D.C. to receive his presidential award for being an awesome teacher, and had the chance to meet OBAMA! :) He had a blast!
-We will soon get back to work on welding the interior frame for SKIII
-The battery box for SKIII is currently being made by the battery team
-We cant wait for the summer, it's getting pretty cold here in Florida!

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UPDATESSS!

HEY everyone!
It's been a while since we've posted anything.
We've been very busy with the new year and getting everything started.
We have decided on captains for the year and we are looking forward to all of the plans we have in store for the team
The official overall captain willll be.... DRUM ROLLLLL!
BEN ROSENTHAL!
he is a senior at SPHS and it's his second year being a Solar Knight.


We will have 3 co-captains which will be: Valeria Saetta, Evan Sadlon and Jessica Millar.
They are all committed to work very hard this year. So far, most have stayed after school every day calling it 8th period to do solar work. All of our hard work will hopefully pay off during the summer of 2011.
YAY we can't wait!