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Solar car team ready to roll

The ASC event challenges university teams, companies and clubs from around the world to build and race their vehicles in an effort to demonstrate the potential of renewable energy. The racers are restricted to the use of electricity generated by sunlight and stored in photovoltaic cells to power their cars. No gasoline or external power sources are allowed.

UW's Midnight Sun team involves over 100 students from all faculties, and has the following objectives:

• to provide an enriching educational experience for university students from diverse disciplines
• to provide students with practical experience in large scale projects, while working in teams and with industry leaders in the community
• to promote energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources of energy
• to promote our sponsors as organizations who actively support education, the environment, and engineering

Midnight Sun VI and the rest of this year's ASC race cars can be tracked on the Internet for the duration of the July 15-25 race through the use of a global positioning satellite system. Daily race results will also be posted.

New museum program for kids

Press the washing machine button and the pop bottles representing laundry use light up. Press the toilet button and see the biggest water guzzler, says Cole, a second-year earth sciences student who's working as an assistant at the museum this summer.

The exhibit, which shows how the average person in Waterloo region consumes water -- about 400 litres per day -- is the kind of display that will be of interest to kids in the museum's new Tuesday ROCKS! program this summer.

Children from kindergarten to grade 6 (accompanied by an adult) are invited to visit the museum on Tuesdays in July and August to learn not only about water, but rocks and dinosaurs, as well.

Participants are invited to "dig to discover hidden fossils, make 'rock buddies'... and bring in your own rocks for identification." As well, they'll "meet Albertosaurus, Parasaurolophus, T-Rex and their friends" to see how they lived millions of years ago.

Tuesday ROCKS! runs from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on July 24 and 31, and on August 7, 14 and 28. To register for a free session, call Cole at ext. 2469.

A little of this and that

The on-campus Christian fellowships host a coffeehouse event tonight in the Student Life Centre. The event begins at 7 p.m. and plans to be "a talent show for promising stars!"

Tomorrow night, St. Jerome's University hosts A Midsummer Night's Ceili. The special night of Irish music, song and dance will give both "experienced dancers and the bipedally challenged" a chance to learn the basics of Irish dancing, and to witness demonstrations by champion-level dancers. Tickets are $12 ($8 for children under 12), and are available by telephone at 884-8111 ext. 255 or at Words Worth Books, Old Goat Books, Second Look Books and the KW Bookstore. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.

The Federation of Students hosts its annual retreat for Orientation leaders this weekend. Some 400 upper-year students will take part.

And looking ahead to Monday, there will be a utility shutdown in the General Services and Commissary buildings. No electrical power will be available between 6 and 7:30 a.m. Plant operations advises "computer equipment should be shut down in an orderly fashion (particularly UNIX systems."

Avvey Peters

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