New SSCP Alumni Network

To all SSCP Alumni:

Our team recently returned from the 2011 World Solar Challenge. We built an ambitious and exciting car named Xenith, and now we are preparing to design and build an even more competitive car for the 2013 WSC. Our team is good at creating bold designs, and now we are reorganizing our team to ensure that our designs are more robust and well tested.

We want to have more thorough design reviews while we build and test our next car, so we are building a network of Stanford alumni and

other professionals who can mentor our group. All of you have built solar cars already, so we want your advice. A strong alumni network will allow us to pass down knowledge and to prevent future teams from making the same mistakes that past teams have made. We would like to create a directory of existing alumni to start the network, so we have a quick survey for you to fill out. We would like to ask some of you to offer your wisdom when our members need help solving especially complex design problems and when projects are ready to receive a professional design review. You can indicate in the survey if you are too busy to help with design reviews, but we would always like to have you on our directory so that we can keep you in the loop. We hope to invite you to new car unveilings, to help you connect with other alumni, and to send you a quick update newsletter when we reach major milestones.

This link, http://goo.gl/UqqDF, will take you to a site to sign up for our network. If you have contact information for other SSCP alumni, please forward them this message. We want to include as many alumni on our directory as possible.

Please let us know if you have any other ideas for how everyone can benefit from this network. We could do anything from alumni reunion BBQs to a job posting bulletin board.