Thanks to everyone who donated during our last round of fundraising this fall! There have been some delays which held up the last set of donations, but now we are receiving your generous contributions. Our great sponsors helped to get our team to the World Solar Challenge, and the race was an extraordinarily valuable learning experience for our team. Here are some of those donors.

In Kind Donations:

Altium is the leading developer of solutions that help engineers design and build the next generation of electronic products. Altium’s vision has been to level the playing field for electronics designers by offering an alternative to expensive, difficult-to-use tools. Altium is now a global company with a passion for innovation, and the goal of redefining the way electronic products are developed. Altium generously supported our team through an in-kind donation of Altium Designer.

SolidWorks Corp. offers complete 3D software tools for engineering modeling, simulation, and publishing. SolidWorks products are easy to learn and use, and work together to help us design products better, faster, and more cost-effectively. The SolidWorks focus on ease-of-use has allowed us to train new members quickly while designing our next solar car. SolidWorks helped our team by providing our team with licenses for a number of their 3D software packages.

SynQor is a leading supplier of power conversion solutions to the communications, computing and industrial markets. SynQor’s innovative products are designed to exceed the demanding performance, quality, and reliability requirements of today’s power electronic engineers that are developing leading-edge infrastructure hardware. SynQor’s capabilities include both standard and custom solutions for distributed power architectures. SynQor provided our team with a set of prototype power converters. They moved mountains to help us out at the last minute before our race and even overnighted the converters to us. We appreciate their help.

Friends Level Sponsors:

Adopt a Panel Level Sponsors:

Henry and Margy Dudley

The Hsu Family

Other Sponsors:

Justy Burdick

Eric Ellenoff

Richard Gaughan

Thomas Sachson

If you have contributed to our team but have not seen your name or company on our website please let us know. It is likely that your gift is still held up in the delay, and we want to ensure that recognize all of our sponsors.

Our team has already started organizing and brainstorming for our next car. We plan to take many of the principles and technologies that we developed with Xenith to build an even faster and more refined car. As always, our team will be reaching out to get help with our project. We are looking for everything from wind tunnel access to in kind part donations to cash sponsorships to industry mentors.

Our next design, build, and race cycle will start at the beginning of the new year. All Stanford students are welcome to join our exciting project. We are a multidisciplinary team with engineering, science, and humanities majors. Email contactsolarcar@lists.stanford.edu if you want information about our first meetings in 2012. We would love to have you on our team.

There will be some exciting new changes to our project in the upcoming two years, so check back often to follow our progress!