Melinda and Laura Brandon Parker starting to set up

Mark Wilson testing out his game where the person had to keep a kite attached to his hat in flight for a minute!

Corey Clark setting up his game.

Mr. Robin Mathis came over to visit our team!

Thomas Brown taking a break from his game to goof off a while!

Team Captain Hunter Powell's little sister Holly Powell tried out a few of the games!

This was a game where you had to hold a Popsicle stick in your mouth and stack six dice on it and be able to hold it for thirty seconds!

We had an assortment of prizes including silly bands,Easter eggs, and candy!

Nick's Callahan little brother Lane Callahan trying to knock Coke cans off of the pedestals with a yoyo tied behind his back!

Mrs. Turman's Grandson Grey trying to get all of the balls out of the box within sixty seconds!

This little girl was trying to put the cereal box cover together!

Mark Wilson stayed out of the sun with his covered chair!

Cade Ellison enjoying the day's games!!

Team member Karmen Spratlin's younger brother Connor testing out his skills!

Karmen Spratlin working her game!

Team Sponsor Donna Turman's granddaughter Jordan Belle
tried a creative approach to the game!


Our team set up a fundraiser at the Flywheel Festival based on the popular show Minute to Win It! Games were set up ranging from simple to almost impossibly difficult and challenged everybody to try to beat them! We appreciate everyone that came out and also enjoyed watching everyone trying to beat the games!

Minute to Win It!!

Our team will be at the Flywheel Festival hosting our version of Minute to Win It as a fundraiser for our team!! Each game will cost one dollar, but if you purchase twenty-five games it will only cost twenty dollars!! Tickets are on sale now so don't miss out!!

The 2011 Houston Lady Racers!!

Green Festival!

Our newest member Laura Brandon Parker, Hunter Powell, and Mr. Reese getting Sundancer II shined up and ready to be shown off!

To teach about Mississippi wildlife, one of the booths brought a live baby alligator!! By the way it's looking at the owl, I think it was ready for some lunch!

We were lucky enough to get some of the Girl Scouts to pose with our race trailer and Sundancer II!!

The best gift ever!!

Our team posing with Smokey the Bear!

This little boy was so cute we had to get a picture of him in our car!

Loading Sundancer II after a great day filled with Girl Scouts and their amazing cookies!!

Saturday, March 19, our team was invited to take part in the Green Festival at Ballard Park! This event was hosted by the Girl Scouts to raise awareness about saving our planet!! Several organizations attended and we are super appreciative to have been included!!

Spring Break!!

Whitney Goerge and Hillary Colbert working on our new car!!

Hillary Colbert pretending to drive the new Sundancer II!

We are already half way through our much needed Spring Break and even though everybody is catching spring fever, it hasn't slowed our team down too much. We have started working on the all new girls car and hope to have it finished in the near future! We can't wait for the race and are counting down the days!!

It is hard to believe that the race is only FOUR months away!! Our team has been busy filling out registration forms and working on drawings of the cars! We are already excited about starting the race and hope to have another successful year!

Back Home!!

Our team enjoyed our brief vacation to Dallas for the solar car workshop!! Mr. Reese taught a presentation on different parts for your solar car along with Mark Westlake from St. Paul Minnesota and Lee Cabe from New York! We spent our day in the workshop, but of course when "solar car school" was over our team made a bee line to the Galleria Mall!

Texas Bound!!

January 28-31 our team will make a special trip to Dallas to participate in a workshop for solar racers!! Mr. Reese will also be teaching a class during the event! We have just bought our plane tickets and reserved the rooms. Our team can't wait to go and we are super excited to learn as much as we can about the race this summer!!

Merry Christmas!!

Our temporary "Winter Wonderland"!!

Even our oldest team member Big Red got to experience the White Christmas!

Thomas Brown taking the rare opportunity to go snow riding!

Our team would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! For the first time in a long time our team woke up to snow falling and actually sticking to the ground!! Even though the snow melted after a few hours, we enjoyed having our first White Christmas! Once again Merry Christmas to everyone and thank you for your continued support!!

We would like to congratulate Brandie Watson on being the lucky winner of the X-Box Kinect!! We hope you enjoy your new gift just in time for Christmas!

Merry Christmas ET!!

Nick Callahan and Karmen Spratlin wrapping the gifts!

Catherine Marsh and Whitney George getting the presents

ready to bring to ET!!

ET ripping open their presents!

This week our team decided to be little Santas and deliver gifts to ET to let them know how much we appreciate them! We also bought candy to go along with the gifts but Mr. Reese found our hiding spot and...well let's just say ET didn't receive any of their candy! Thank you Mrs. Ellison and Mrs. Turman for everything you do for us and the team! Merry Christmas!!

Free X-Box 360 Kinect!!

Our team is selling chances on an X-Box 360 Kinect for one dollar each or six chances for five dollars. All of the money we raise will go toward funding our trip to the World Solar Challenge in Australia next fall and also for the Hunt-Winston Solar Challenge next summer! The drawing will be held on December 17th, so find your nearest solar car member and test your luck!!

Happy Holidays!!

With Christmas right around the corner, our team has been extremely busy getting ready for the holiday season! We are almost through making posters for parades and have started discussing how we will decorate Sundancer and Sundancer II! We hope everybody has a great Christmas, and we also hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving!!

Fall Festival!

Jay Alford and Adam Chandler recruiting a new member!

Members of the Orchard Church enjoying church services at Ballard Park before the Fall Festival!

The guys playing a game of Sunday afternoon football!

Hillary Colbert and Whitney George setting up our tents for the festival!

We even had Super Girl come see our cars!

Karmen Spratlin taking a nap after a long day of work!

Sunday, October 31 (aka Halloweeen!) our team brought the cars to Ballard Park to display during the Orchard Church's Fall Festival! The festival was complete with tons of people, endless games, and of course great food! We would like to thank the church for inviting us! We had a lot of fun and enjoyed attending church at the park!

Suzy Reese and Hillary Colbert walking with Sundancer II with Catherine Marsh in the driver seat!
Sundancer cruising around the square!

Sundancer and Sundancer II parading around the square during the Houston's Homecoming Pep Rally!

This past week our school celebrated homecoming and hosted the annual town Homecoming Pep Rally! Our team was extremely honored to be a part of the parade that started off the pep rally and would like to thank everybody for the recognition!

Jay Alford.....Well, we aren't exactly sure what he's doing!

Catherine Marsh, Sydney Harrell, and Hillary Colbert and Clay McNutt working on Sundancer II!

Jay Alford tapping into his inner monkey and swinging from the ceiling!!....I think Mrs. Ellison is mistaking him for a pinata!

Monday, October 5 our team met at the school with Clay McNutt! We showed him everything we have been working on since school started and got his advice on a few things. As you can see in the picture above, we managed to have a little fun in the midst of the seriousness!

Sundancer Goes to Jackson!

Cory Clark showing the students a miniature solar car built by Mrs. Hill's sixth grade GT class!

The Houston Lady Racers had a line of girls wanting to sit in Sundancer II!

We had several students that came over to see our cars!

Hunter Powell, Daniel Worthey, and Jay Alford buckling a student up before letting him take Sundancer for a spin!

Our team talking to students from Jackson Preparatory!

Friday, October 1, our team went to Jackson to display our cars at the Ag Museum! Our team had tons of fun talking to everybody that came over to see our cars and explaining what our solar racing is like! We would like to thank everybody for providing the delicious McCallister's sandwiches and sweet tea!