Summer 2017 - Spartan Superway Solar Team

For our first week, we decided to dive into the various reports from the previous solar teams. Through this, we were able to get a feel of how much progress was made and to begin where they left off. We found many reports dating back to 2015 in the INIST archives and Superway Google Drive, however we settled on focusing on Eric Rosenfeld's final report from fall 2016. In this report Eric details the many calculations he has done, such as determining how much energy is required for each pod and how many solar panels would be required to power them. He also included several designs for the mounting and racking setup. Overall, we plan to use this information as a baseline for where to begin, but also found that much of the information will need to be revisited. In the report, Eric uses SunEdison panels for his simulations, however this company has since gone bankrupt. In addition, his curved panel design has the PV panels mounted on the top, requiring a lift to access them. We plan ...

The Assertion-Evidence Method is a presentation technique that increases the effectiveness of the material by the way it is presented. This method uses assertive titles and pictures/diagrams instead of bullet points and slides full of text to emphasize the points that the presenter speaks. For our first presentation, we utilized the Assertion-Evidence method and found that our titles were not assertive enough. We updated the presentation and hope to be able to better use this method for the next presentation. Our revised presentation can be found by clicking "Keep Reading" in the bottom right.