So, on to the first news item! As some of you may know, I’m the Strategy and Telemetry team leader for the University of Toronto Blue Sky Solar Racing Team. The team has finally returned from the 2007 World Solar Challenge, having placed 5th in the adventure class, with the best time for any team from Canada. Since I was unfortunately unable to attend the race myself, I haven’t seen any of the recorded data yet, but I understand that the car performed quite well. Hopefully there will be enough clean data from the race to properly update the automated strategy system with a profile for the 2007 car, as it is currently tuned for the previous design and therefore was not much use during the race.

There are a few photos from the race over at the team’s site, and I hope to get some more up soon. It’s often been joked that the team is actually a photography club, given the number of members who are also avid photographers, so it may be a while before we can sort though the mountain of shots that were taken during the race.