From Sci-Arc & Caltech
Here's a truly bright idea about student cooperation, brilliance and building an energy-smarter future: the architectural whizzes downtown have teamed up with the engineering geniuses in Pasadena to design and build a national competition-worthy prototype solar house, (shown at right) an entry that will get $100,000 in funding so it is constructed in an exhibit and test on the National Mall in Washington in October, 2011. The SoCal competitors, the first from this area so honored, were picked among 20 international challengers for the U.S. Energy Dept.'s 'Solar Decathalon.' Rather than knock skulls in this event, students from the two area institutions decided to capitalize on their respective strengths and to cooperate on an entry, hatched at an eatery in Old Town. Their plans will be exhibited downtown as part of the Earth Day programs and in an effort to boost awareness of both the team's success and its need for additional support and donations to participate in the DC competition.
Architects, engineers from two schools join for 'Solar Decathalon'
2222@you can hurtle down a six-lane water slide, take a banana boat ride, bounce on a water trampoline or try kayaking.
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