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Honeywell Engineering Summer School
The Honeywell Engineering Summer School (HESS) is a week long summer camp which aims to show gifted and talented year 11 students what a career in engineering can offer. The 80 students visit five universities - with each taking it in turn to host the summer school as well as a number...AGL Sustainable Living Competition Award Ceremony
UNSW Sunswift II was once again on display for the Award Ceremony of the AGL Sustainable Living Competition held at UNSW. Our car created a lot of interest among the students who attended the presentation.The AGL Sustainable Living...
UNSW SRT withdraws from the 2003 World Solar Challenge
On Friday 10th October the 4WD towing our solar car was involved in an accident on route to Darwin. The 4WD, trailer and solar car were all badly damaged. Fortunately the only injuries sustained by those in the 4WD were minor cuts and bruises.As we...
Back of Bourke and beyond
Today we travelled from Bourke (northern central NSW) to Blackall in central Queensland. It's not as far as we would have liked to go, but that just means an earlier start tomorrow morning!We kicked the day off with a display at 'Central Park' in Bourke, and ...
Sydney to Bourke
After spending most of Tuesday packing and getting the batteries re-wired we were finally ready to leave Sydney, and did so roughly on schedule at 7am. We were given an extra hand from Suzie and Daniel, who aren’t joining us on the race, but still stayed up till the early hours...Departure postponed due to technical difficulties
Our departure from Sydney has been moved from the 6th to the 8th to allow time to fix some technical problems with our battery pack. On the afternoon of the 5th, the discovery was made during battery testing that the conductive tabs were acting more like small resistors and while we...Counting to the 2003 WSC
It is 2:55am and Solarch is still a hive of activity! Whether its buzzing from the drilling in the mechanical room, the battery testing being conducted by our electrical engineers, or a heated discussion on final checklists and action plans; the team are doing crazy hours in order to...Preparing for the 2003 WSC
The UNSW Solar Racing Team’s World Solar Challenge 2003 campaign began in earnest on Monday this week, with the arrival of most team members at “Solarch” the home of our solar car, UNSW Sunswift II.There is plenty to be...
Test Run #5 - Goulbourn
Motorists and service station staff couldn´t help but chuckle as a solar car pulled into the servo just off the M5 at Goulbourn at 430pm on a Saturday afternoon, after UNSW SRT members decided it was time to turn around and head home after 180km and another full day of rigourous...[ 68 results ]
