Stevens Solar Splash 2018

We, the 2018 Stevens Solar Splash team, have set our sights on an ambitious goal: winning the Solar Splash 2018 competition and becoming the international champions of intercollegiate solar/electric boating. We have been hard at work researching, designing, testing, and learning; all in the interest of this goal. The 2017 rookie team did a fantastic job finishing 4th overall and have left us with critical components, their acquired technical understanding, and competition insights that will help us to achieve this goal. We have identified the most impactful technical areas for improvement and are moving forwards with technical analysis, core research, new designs, and test and evaluation to improve our competition platform. We will be working to design an endurance speed hull appendage, decrease hull weight, increase the available power to our motors, and modify our propulsion system to get more efficient power to the water.

We take great pride in our ability to utilize our engineering knowledge and skills to address these technical and design challenges and manage our complex project, but we cannot achieve our goals alone. We need support. The necessary materials, equipment, manufacturing, tools, on-water practice, and travel are all very costly. We have already received generous donations and support from several sponsors including, Precision Propeller, Jamestown Distributors, Resolute Raching Shells, Bravolab, ELCO Motor Yachts, Automation Direct, Henry Elliot and Frank Poor,  Zahn Electronics, Viking Yachts, and some of the core members of last year’s teams.  These generous contributions are wonderful but they will not get us to our goal. We need your support too.

Our fundraising goal is $5,000 by the end of May! All funds raised will be used to pay for parts, tools, equipment, manufacturing, and travel expenses. Any level of support is greatly appreciated and extremely helpful.

Thank you!