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This website gives an in-depth introduction and overview of the Junior Solar Sprint Project

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This website gives an in-depth introduction and overview of the Junior Solar Sprint Project

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This website contains a brief introduction to what the JSS is and an overview of what you are doing in the project. It also has information on what is needed to build the solar cars and how to build them as well as a few tips and trick.

P.4 Group 4.8, Lily P, Delaney A, Hannah B, Brooklyn C.

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This website give instructions on what you need to make the sorlar car and step by step how to do it. It also gives Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Cars.

p.4 group 4.6: Addy E, Malia E, Alanya B, Samantha S

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A solar car is a vehicle powered by energy produced by sunlight. Solar cars run on solar energy. Therefore, they do not require any diesel or other fuel to start. The sunlight we receive is stored on a panel that can be used later. That's why it is called "solar energy". A Solar car charges the battery using sunlight and solar panels. It can be used for transport. Most solar cars are designed for solar car racing. A solar car depends on a solar panel that uses a photovoltaic (PV) cell that converts sunlight into electricity.

When the sun's rays hit the photovoltaic cell, the electrons get excited and start to flow. It generates an electric current. Photovoltaic cells are made up of semiconductor material.

Required Materials:

The materials needed to make the solar car are:

Steps to Making a Solar Car

Here's how to do a small solar car project at home.

1. First, it connects the most crucial part of the vehicle that controls the wheels of the car, which is a DC motor. Solder the leads of the DC motor directly to the wheels of the car like a gear.

2. After that, take the cardboard and cut it well in the shape of a rectangle.

3. Now glue the tubes on the cardboard with the glue stick that we cut.

4. A small space is created on the box for the equipment.

5. The wheel with the attached gear is now inserted into the tube. After that, the wheels are linked to the shaft.

6. Now adjust the wheels, shaft and motor.

7. The final step is to connect a solar panel to the top of the cardboard utilising glue so that it does not fall.

8. Then connect the solar panel through the DC motor using solder.

9. Note that the solar panel must be kept in an oblique position.

10. Then take the solar car to a sunny place so that it can absorb the sunlight.

Working of Solar Car

When the solar car project is ready, take it to a place where there is a lot of sun. Place the car on a level surface and make sure that the solar panel is exposed to the sun. After absorbing sunlight, the car will start to run.

We can also explore the interior of our homes by replacing sunlight with a high wattage bulb. We can predict a result (which will be the exact same as followed by sunlight).

In this solar car project, we will learn how solar panels, DC motors work. So, we can do other projects with their help.

Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Car

Advantages

A solar car is an eco-friendly vehicle because it has zero emission levels. They do not burn fuels. The motors generate electricity that does not emit any toxic gases or produce any pollution in the environment.

The solar car makes less noise pollution when compared to the vehicles powered by conventional fuel.

Solar car vehicle has no fuel cost and it requires a low cost for maintenance.

Since the solar car is made of light-weighted components, the car runs faster and smoothly as compared to normal vehicles.

In the solar car, solar panels derive the energy from the sunlight/bright bulbs and store them. This stored energy can be used in the future as well.

Disadvantages

The solar panels or the photovoltaic cell can only convert 20-30% of the sunlight into electricity depending upon the material that has been used.

The solar car does not have driver safety features and any other equipment like headlights, rearview mirror, etc.

The solar car requires a large surface area to mount the solar panels.

This is all about how you can make a solar-powered car for a brilliant science project. Just follow the steps and arrange all the requirements. By doing this project, learn how solar cars operate and how this concept can be an excellent way to replace fossil fuels in the future.

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A solar car is a vehicle powered by energy produced by sunlight. Solar cars run on solar energy. Therefore, they do not require any diesel or other fuel to start. The sunlight we receive is stored on a panel that can be used later. That's why it is called "solar energy".

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Drawing tutorial of a basic solar car concept to help students visually communicate an engineered system.

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Drawing tutorial of a basic solar car concept to help students visually communicate an engineered system.

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Video tutorial on making your outline or sketch for your solar-powered car. Learn the purpose of making a solar car. Make sure to follow the steps to be successful.

Period.4 Group.4  Names: Landon T., Jacob E., Nolan B., and Christian G.
https://iteachstem.com.au/resources/solar-car-challenge-unit-of-work-race/

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The Solar Car Challenge unit provides students with the opportunity to investigate the principles behind electric vehicles and the importance of finding alternative energy sources to drive the transport industry. Students will develop an understanding of electric motors and investigate key concepts related to motion.

Students will use the iSTEM process to develop a solution to the Solar Car Pursuit Challenge and integrate the use of technology to analyse aspects of their vehicle's motion.

In this resource page, there are materials to support a range of different STEM Learning Activities that are related to Motion. Teachers are encouraged to select a STEM Learning Activity which best suit.

STEM Learning Activities - SISP Mini Electric Vehicle Challenge

The SISP Secondary solar car challenge is designed to be used in conjunction with the Kite Magic Solar Car kits for students to apply their knowledge of solar energy and electric circuits. Focusing on technology and engineering, these kits are ideal for iSTEM classes. Schools are encouraged to use the solar car kits to run an in-school or intra-school solar car challenge at the end of this unit, where students test their designs. This solar car pursuit race is designed to test students' skills of engineering and photovoltaics. Students will need to solve many problems before they have a car ready to race in this event, require team-effort plus a range of new skills.

Students will need to consider some of the following - wheel size (this may require 3D printing or laser cutting); gear ratios; connection of the two solar panels for series and parallel; placement of components; angle of the solar panels; friction points on the car plus the guides needed to help the vehicle around the track; different types of materials for the chassis and other parts of the car, plus more that students will think of as they build their car. Teachers may also like to add a creative side and look for the best looking car. See resource section below for instructions and videos on how to construct and draw a solar car.

This unit requires the school to purchase the Kite Magic Solar Car Kits.

A class set of eight kits is suitable for 24 students. Each kit is made up of 2 Solar Panels - 2v, 700mA, 4 wheels, 2 Axles and Axle collars, 1 motor - F18 with plastic mount, 2 large spur gears, 2 small pinion gears, 1 battery pack, a coloured corflute chassis and a toggle switch. To purchase a class set, contact Kite Magic 02 9045 1662 info@kitesite.com.au

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Solar Car Challenge Unit of Work - RACE - iTeachSTEM

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In this resource page we have a number of examples of STEM Learning Activities that would be suitable for the Motion Elective Module in iSTEM. There are detailed instructions and video resources to assist teachers to design engaging learning activities for their students.

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This video guide goes in depth on how to build a solar powered car.

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This video guide goes in depth on how to build a solar powered car.

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This video gives us some tips to make the solar car easier to build. It also is easy to follow along with the guide.

P:4 Group 4.1 Hayden C. Desmond D. Emmanuel O. Ivan R.

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Build a Solar-Powered Car for the Junior Solar Sprint

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This video explains the perfect angle for you to put your panel. In the video they talked about how the perfect angle depends on the time of day. For maximum PV output you are told to put your panel perpendicular to the sun.

Group 4.5: Tyler V, Kauan C, Abe I, Noah T,

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Solar Panel Angle for the Junior Solar Sprint

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This site shows you how to make a quick, affordable, and simple way to build a Solar Car. Firstly, it shows us what materials to gather in order to build the solar car. After that we are shown how to build it with easy step by step instructions. It also shows you the cool things you can add to the solar car to make it more presentable.

4.3: Colin McG., Drake, Jessica, Sophia

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Building a solar-powered car will introduce your students to alternative energy concepts while incorporating problem-solving, design, and modeling. In addition, students will experience using hand tools as they construct their solar vehicle.

Make Your Own Solar Car

Adult supervision is recommended for this project.

What You Need for a Solar Car Project

Small electric motor (Look at hobby or electronics stores, and make sure you get one with a motor pulley)

For the car body: cardboard milk carton, water bottle, cardboard, foam board, or similar materials

For the front wheels and back wheels: plastic bottle caps, film canister caps, toy wheels such as K'nex, etc.

For the axles: Stiff wire or wooden shish-kabob skewers

Straws or eye screws to mount the axles

How to Build a Solar-Powered Car

1. Choose a material for the car body, which is called the chassis. Think carefully about this: you want something strong, but also something lightweight so it needs less power for the motor to move it. (But be careful - if it's too light, it can easily get blown about by the wind.) A big part of engineering is finding the right balance between weight and strength.

2. Use a nail to poke a small hole in the center of your wheels. Make sure the stiff wire or wooden skewers you use for axles fit in the holes tightly. Take an extra cap and cut off the sides, leaving just the top part, which usually has a small inner rim to help keep the bottle from leaking. Glue this cap to one of your wheels. You have just created a pulley for your driving wheel; the inner rim of the extra bottle cap will support your car's drive belt. (You can try using a film canister cap for this step instead of cutting a bottle cap. If you are using toy wheels like K'nex, you can just use a smaller wheel mounted on the inside of your main wheel to act as the pulley.)

3. Now, mount your axles onto the chassis. Depending on what your chassis is made of, you can thread the axle through eye screws mounted on the bottom. Another easy method is to tape straws on the underside of the chassis and threads the axles through them. (Use our balloon rocket car project as a reference for how to do this.)

4. Attach the small motor pulley to the motor shaft. Determine where to mount the motor by connecting the driving pulley with the motor pulley using an elastic band as a drive belt. Position the motor so the band is slightly stretched (but don't stretch it too much!). Mount the motor with glue or tape it in between a small frame of wood or cardboard blocks.

5. Use clear plastic tape to attach the two solar cells together side-by-side; then connect them in a series circuit using the alligator clip leads. Connect the positive terminal of one cell to the negative terminal of the other. Connect the remaining terminals to the motor. If the motor spins the wrong way, switch the leads where they connect to the motor. Once it's connected properly, you'll probably want to use tape to help keep the wires under control.

6. Mount the solar cells on the chassis at an angle where they will receive the most sun. Take your car outside to a sunny sidewalk, connect the drive belt, and watch it go!

7. Designing and building a car from scratch involves a lot of perseverance and trial and error, so don't be discouraged if yours doesn't work perfectly right away. Experiment to see if you can improve the design of your solar car. How fast does it go? Does it drive straight? How would it perform with only one solar cell? What if you used smoother wheels for less friction? Keep testing new ideas to make your car work better.

Once you've perfected your car, think about other ways you could experiment with solar power.

Could you build a solar boat or water pump?

Maybe you'll be the next scientist to help find out!

For more solar science fun, check out these science projects:

Solar Power Science Lesson

The Sun: The Ultimate Power Source

Every morning the sun rises, bringing light and heat to the earth, and every evening it sets. It seems so commonplace that we rarely spare a thought for that bright object in the sky. Yet without it, we wouldn't exist!

Deep in the core of our local star, hydrogen atoms react by nuclear fusion, producing a massive amount of energy that streams in all directions at the speed of light (that's the mind-boggling speed of more than 186,000 miles per second). In just eight minutes, that energy travels 93 million miles to earth.

We use many different forms of energy here on earth, but here's the thing: almost all of them originate with the sun, not just light and heat (thermal) energy!

The law of conservation of energy says that energy can't be created or destroyed, but can change its form. And that's what happens with energy from the sun -it changes into lots of different forms:

Plants convert light energy from the sun into chemical energy (food) by the process of photosynthesis. Animals eat plants and use that same chemical energy for all their activities.

Heat energy from the sun causes changing weather patterns that produce wind. Wind turbines then convert wind power into electrical energy.

Hydroelectricity is electrical energy produced from moving water, and water flows because heat energy from the sun causes evaporation that keeps water moving through the water cycle.

Right now, much of human activity uses energy from fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. These energy sources are created over very long periods of time from decayed and fossilized living matter (animals and plants), and the energy in that living matter originally came from the sun through photosynthesis.

The sun sends more energy to the earth in one hour than the whole planet needs in a year. Imagine if we could capture that energy directly and convert it to a form that could power our cities, homes, and cars!

Many scientists around the world are researching how we can improve our use of the sun's energy. One way is to use solar thermal panels to collect thermal energy to heat air and water.

Another way is to use photovoltaic (PV) cells, also called solar cells, to convert sunlight directly into electricity. ('Photovoltaic' essentially means 'light electricity'.)

PV cells use a material such as silicon to absorb energy from sunlight. The sunlight energy causes some electrons to break free from the silicon atoms in the cell.

Because of how the solar cell is made, these free electrons move to one side of the cell, creating a negative charge and leaving a positive charge on the other side.

PV cells today are still only able to capture a small fraction of the sun's energy, so acres of them are necessary to collect enough light to create electricity on a large scale.

A lot more scientific work needs to be done to make them more efficient and take up less space. Despite the challenges, solar panels are used to power many things such as emergency signs, school crossing lights, and more.

Many people are also able to power their homes by mounting solar panels on the roof, and this will only get easier as the technology continues to advance.

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Building a solar-powered car will introduce your students to alternative energy concepts while incorporating problem-solving, design, and modeling. In addition, students will experience using hand tools as they construct their solar vehicle. Adult supervision is recommended for this project.

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We found some tips for the Junior Solar Sprint.

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We found on this website some tips for the solar sprint and this was based of a person that did the sprint and had some tips for the people that make the car. There was info about how we should attach the wheels to be aerodynamic, and how to attach the solar pannel.

Period 4: Kaio C, Diego A, Pete F, Aidan T Group number 4.2

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Junior solar Sprint rules and regulations.pdf

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Pitsco Ray Catcher Sprint Deluxe- these are the kits that we build and innovate from.

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All the materials needed to build a complete solar car for the Junior Solar Sprint competition!

Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Solar Vehicles Teacher's Guide is available for print here, or you can download a digital copy for free here.

Order 30 kits to build a class pack!

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All the materials needed to build a complete solar car for the Junior Solar Sprint competition! Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Solar Vehicles Teacher's Guide is available for print here, or you can download a digital copy for free here. Order 30 kits to build a class pack!

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Southern California Junior Solar Sprint!

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The Junior Solar Sprint at Calavera will be held in Accordance with the Regulations for the National Junior Solar Sprint Event.  As you design your car, please keep in mind these key requirements:

Safe for contestant and spectators

Maximum Vehicle Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 60 cm

Leave a Space for Your Number (3 x 3 cm)

Sunlight is the only power source

Energy enhancing devices must be attached.

Steering via guidewire, using 1-2 attached eyelits

Must have a 3D chassis, solar panel must be easily added and removed.