Starting in Dallas, Texas, and ending nine days later in Calgary, Alberta, the North American Solar Car Challenge will feature some of the brightest young minds, racing their sun powered creations across the continent.

Most of these cars look like they were designed by my nine year old cousin on the back of an Applebee’s placemat, but due credit to the teams involved, mostly from Colleges and Universities in Canada and the U.S., who have no doubt missed countless episodes of Startgate:Atlantis in order to take the time and effort to design and build these technologcal wonders.

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