Santa Clara University Solar Decathlon Team Ready to Build.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- With design plans in place, an eager team of student engineers ready to start pounding nails, and an international competition just eight months away, Santa Clara University's Solar Decathlon team is marking the start of the construction phase of the University's first solar house with a kickoff celebration on at 9 a.m. Feb. 22. Several stations featuring materials students will be using to build the solar house will be at the kickoff celebration. "Many of the materials that we'll be using were designed right here at Santa Clara. The building of this house is truly a collaborative effort between students, faculty, and the community, and demonstrates the power and promise of alternative energy," said James Bickford, project manager of SCU's Solar Decathlon team. The state-of-the-art solar home will be built on the SCU SCU Santa Clara University SCU Southern Cross University (New South Wales, Australia) SCU Southern California University of Health Sciences (Whittier, California) SCU Serious Crimes Unit SCU Special Care Unit campus and transported cross country to Washington, D.C., where it will become part of a solar village composed of homes designed and built by the Solar Decathlon teams. Among the teams SCU will be competing against are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, ; Cornell University; Texas A&M University; University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
The team from SCU is one of only 20 schools in the world (and the only school farther west than Colorado) participating in the Solar Decathlon, a competition where teams are judged on their ability to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient, solar-powered home. The houses will be on display and judged in Washington, D.C., in October. More about the Solar Decathlon: www.eere.energy.gov/solar_decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. . What: Solar Decathlon Kickoff Celebration When: Thurs. Feb. 22, 9 a.m. Where: Solar House construction site--Northwest Corner of Buck Shaw Stadium Stadium history Buck Shaw opened its gates for the first time on September 22 1962 when it hosted a football game between UC Davis and Santa Clara. The stadium was named for Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw, a legendary former football coach of the SCU Broncos. , Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Visuals: Solar panels that will be used on solar house, 3-D model of solar house, bamboo beams (designed by SCU faculty and staff) Available for interviews: Student and faculty team members; sponsors About Santa Clara University Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,377 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu. |
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