Daily Archives: October 18, 2006

2 Days and Counting (Part 5) !

Final post for today from the competition.  As always, click on the picture thumbnails to see a larger version.  For the audio clip, double-click on the arrow next to the speaker icon to hear a short narration of what the picture is about.

Ben Shelef congratulating the University of Michigan team for qualifying.

 

 

 

Climber Weigh-in trellis (narration by Ken Davidian).

[audio: ClimberWeighInTrellis.mp3]

 

 

More tomorrow !

2 Days and Counting (Part 4) !

We’re still holding at only 4 teams qualifying for the competition so far.  More attempts are being made tonight.  In the meantime, here are a few more pictures from the Qualification runs.  Click on the thumbnails for a larger version of the picture.

University of Michigan’s MClimber on the Tether.

 

 

 

TurboCrawler (German Team) getting ready.

 

 

 

 

TurboCrawler on the Tether.

 

 

 

 

2 Days and Counting (Part 3) – Four teams now qualified !

 

Four teams have now qualified to run in Friday’s and Saturday’s Space Elevator Games Competition.  They are the Kansas City Space Pirates, TurboCrawler (the German Team), MClimber (from the University of Michigan) and LiteWon (from Westmont High School in Pasadena, California).  More are sure to make it today and tomorrow.

Below are a couple of pictures from the LiteWon entry.  Click on the thumbnails for a larger version.

LiteWon entry adding Solar Panels.

 

 

 

 

LiteWon on the ribbon.

 

 

 

 

Update: October 19th – Joe Carolan corrects me by commenting that Lite Won is from Campbell, not Pasadena, California.  My apologies for the error and thank you for the correction, Joe.