Progress on Sundancer II!

Whitney George arranging the Schott Solar Cells on the array!

Suzy Reese drilling a hole into the array!

Reagan Byrne and Whitney George slicing the circles in half!

Thomas Brown drilling holes in the car!

He has his concentration face on!

Our car's array!

Hillary Colbert and Reagan Byrne soldering wires while being carefully watched by Hunter Powell and Thomas Brown!

Umm, well we aren't too sure what they are doing!

Reagan Byrne and Hillary Colbert soldering wires!
In the back Karmen Spratlin and Suzy Reese are cutting the Schott Solar Cells!

Hillary Colbert tracing circles to put at the front end of our car!

Nolen Hood and Thomas Brown doing what they do best
Goofing Off!

In the past couple of weeks we have made a lot of progress! We have soldered the wires on our Schott Solar Cells and are getting ready to wire them to our array. We have started to work on the body and are making designs for our car!

Pictures from the Solar Car Workshop!!

The workshop was filmed by Winston School Videographers! You can view the webcast at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/winston-solar

This is Mr. BB's first solar car workshop!

Dr. Marks is explaining the design of the Winston School's solar car

Mr. Reese answering question from the instructors who are starting new teams!

Visiting ICC!!

On January 29, our team visited ICC! Clay McNutt showed us around various parts of the campus and demonstrated his PLC labs! We are very excited about him joining us on the race this summer to Colorado!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mrs. Ellison!!

We appreciate all of the hard work you do for the team and hope you have a great birthday!!

Texas Bound!

Team sponsors Keith Reese, BB Turman, and Donna Turman are leaving for Dallas,Texas tomorrow morning to attend a specialty workshop for solar car teams! Mr. Reese will speaking at the workshop on ways to conserve energy! Anita Ellison was planning on going to Texas with the other sponsors but had to have surgery on her shoulder and is unable to go. Get well soon Mrs. Ellison!!

Twitter!

Our team has recently joined the Twitter community!! You can check us out at twitter.com/HoustonRaceTeam! We will be tweeting often so be sure to follow us!!

Thomas Brown smoothing out the rough edges

Thomas Brown and Reagan Byrne cutting out the foam board!

Hunter Powell, Whitney George, and Adam Chandler measuring the car to see how much foam board we need!

The team working together to secure the foam board on the car!

We have been making a lot of progress on Sundancer II. We have secured the foamboard on the top of the car and plan to wire our Schott solar cells this week! We are very excited and plan to finish our car by spring break!

Merry Christmas ET!!

Ellison and Turman opening their gifts!

Hillary Colbert and Karmen Spratlin cutting out the hole to hide the GPS in!

Suzy Reese, Whitney George, and Reagan Byrne using hammers to make holes in the Styrofoam

For the past few days our team has been playing secret Santa! Every day we have been bringing team sponsors Donna Turman and Anita Ellison (aka ET) a Christmas gift and candy! For their final gift, we will give them both a GPS but shhh don't tell them! It's a secret!

Christmas Parades!

December 2, our team participated in the annual Houston Christmas Parade! We brought Sundancer I and II plus, the dragster, chopper, and scooter! We also participated in the Tupelo Christmas Parade December 5!

The chopper and scooter zooming through the parade!

Jay Alford drinking some much needed hot chocolate!

Our team making our way through the parade!


The VFW also participated in the Houston Christmas Parade! We would like to thank them for their sacrifice to our country and for all of the support they have given our team!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Since Thanksgiving is right around the corner, we would like to thank everyone that has helped us throughout the years. We hope you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! We can't express how much your contributions mean to us! Happy Turkey Day!!

IT'S ALIVE!!

Making sure there is plenty of air in our tires!

Taking Sundancer II out for the very first time!

How do you like Thomas's cheetah print helmet?!

Hunter Powell and Thomas Brown securing ropes to the car.

They are serving as our braking system for the moment until our brakes can be installed!

Reagan Byrne test driving Sundancer II with Hunter Powell and Thomas Brown acting as her brakes!

After much hard work, we have finally got Sundancer II running! We test drove it around the school today, but had to use ropes to stop it because we haven't installed brakes yet!

Team Pictures!!

Monday November 2, our team met to take pictures for our 2009 Sundancer Solar Car Team!! Members include Captain Will Turman, Thomas Brown, Jay Michael Alford, Hunter Powell, Adam Chandler, Nolen Hood, Austin Watkins, Nick Callahan, Team Captain Whitney George, Hillary Colbert, Reagan Byrne, Suzy Reese, Karmen Spratlin, Catherine Marsh, and our new members Elise Mobley, and Sydney Harrell

Team Meeting!!

Taking a minute to have a little fun!

Measuring our drivers for our new frame for Sundancer II

Sponsor BB Turman and Allyson Parker working on assembling our brakes!

This past Monday we had our first solar car meeting for the month of October!! We had planned to take a new team picture before the meeting started, but due to rain we were unable to. We started the meeting with a quick update from our team captains Will Turman and Whitney George, and then we went into the lab to work on our cars!! We had a very successful night and see great potential in all of our new members!!

Sundancer on Display in Jackson!

The team unloading Sundancer and getting ready for a great day!

We brought our trophies and helmets from the race to display!

Mrs. Ellison guiding our newest team sponsor BB Turman!

Could this be a future solar car member?

Various members of the team talking to the students

Jay Michael Alford and Reagan Byrne helping the students climb into the car

Taking a quick team picture before leaving the Ag Museum

Friday, October 2, our solar car team was invited to Jackson to display our Open Division car, Sundancer at the Ag Museum! We met several students from various schools in Mississippi and enjoyed a great lunch provided by the Mississippi Development Authority. It was exciting to talk to the students , and answer their questions about the car and our team. It was a great opportunity and I hope we can come back next year!