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Kristina Yu

Solar Decathlon House: SHADE house 101

Unlike a fast paced NCAA basketball game, academic games are tortuga-paced.  For the last 15 months, team ASUNM — Arizona State University and University of New Mexico — has taken on the game challenge to design, construct, transport and operate a fully solar-powered house. The objective is to bring this house to the 2013 competition site of Orange County Park, CA.  20 teams from around the world and the US converge with their houses October 2013 to compete in ten categories…

Solar Decathlon ingredients: College students + construction + competition

The Solar Decathlon is an international collegiate competition in ten contests for a fully solar powered house sponsored by the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. University of New Mexico students have had the opportunity to compete alongside many of the best and brightest students in the nation to design, construct and operate  a solar house under competition standards. A highly competitive evaluation will be held October 2013 in Irvine, CA…