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Unlike regular racecars, the ones built and driven by students at a handful of Mississippi schools make almost no noise--and definitely no exhaust fumes.
On July 18, a quartet of the solar-powered vehicles from Mississippi and their competitors from Texas, California, New York, Florida and Missouri passed through Houston, seat of Chickasaw County.
Residents lined the streets around the town square to cheer the hometown car, Sundancer of Houston Vocational-Technical Center, and to welcome the other teams competing in the annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge. This year's event, which is much less a race than it is a test of engineering acumen and team effort, ran from Round Rock, Texas, home of sponsor Dell computer headquarters, to Newburgh, N.Y., home of one of the competing teams.
Sundancer is a six-time winner of the national competition. It tied for first at the finish July...
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