{"id":1306,"date":"2017-05-11T21:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sa.wdev.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:25:49","slug":"solar-team-hopes-new-boat-will-make-a-splash-at-june-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/2017\/05\/11\/solar-team-hopes-new-boat-will-make-a-splash-at-june-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar team hopes new boat will make a \u2018splash\u2019 at June competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fea-solar-splash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, Edward Ruppel &#8217;19, Seth Schaffer &#8217;17, Matt Dombroski &#8217;17, Ariane Hasbrouck &#8217;19 work on their new Solar Splash boat, a custom design using cedar strip, in Hopeman Hall. (University photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What\u2019s new about the Solar Splash boat this year?\u00a0Everything.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the University of Rochester\u00a0Solar Splash team\u00a0will head to Springfield, Ohio, in early June confident they have a realistic shot at placing in competition against 15 other collegiate teams that have designed and built solar-powered electric boats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything on the boat is completely new,\u201d says Solar Splash president Edward Ruppel \u201917, a major in biomedical engineering. \u201cWe built an entirely new hull, and a new drive system from scratch; we\u2019ve added brand new steering, new batteries, new battery management, and ship to shore communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first year the team has entirely rebuilt its boat&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/solar-team-hopes-new-boat-will-make-a-splash-at-june-competition-244352\/\">(Read More on Rochester News Center)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s new about the Solar Splash boat this year?\u00a0Everything. As a result, the University of Rochester\u00a0Solar Splash team\u00a0will head to Springfield, Ohio, in early June confident they have a realistic&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/2017\/05\/11\/solar-team-hopes-new-boat-will-make-a-splash-at-june-competition\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/solarsplash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}