High School Solar-Powered Go-Kart Race a Success
June 17, 2019
Tech Parks Arizona held the eighth annual Racing the Sun, a high school solar go-kart competition, Saturday, April 27th, 2019, at Tucson’s Musselman Honda Circuit.
University of Arizona College of Engineering students also participated. Tech Parks Arizona teamed up with the UA’s Transportation Research Institute and sponsored a team of seniors and challenged them to create an autonomous self-driving solar-powered go-kart.
The senior design team demonstrated a working prototype of a full autonomous go-kart that runs on solar power.