{"id":21936,"date":"2014-05-08T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=21936"},"modified":"2014-05-08T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:05:34","slug":"building-competitive-teams-with-solidworks-education-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/05\/building-competitive-teams-with-solidworks-education-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Building Competitive Teams with SOLIDWORKS Education Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I love about working for SOLIDWORKS is our Education Program (I\u2019m a teacher\u2019s kid, so education is something near and dear to my heart). Spring is a busy time for the SOLIDWORKS Education Team. They release the latest version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/edulaunch\/overview.htm?scid=hp_mar_1_edulaunch\">SOLIDWORKS Education Edition<\/a> \u2013 everything your students need to learn 3D design and sharpen their skills to get the job of their dreams \u2013 and its student competition time.<\/p>\n<p>In the past month alone, SOLIDWORKS Education provided software to 73 student teams and participated in three events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.usfirst.org\/\">FIRST Robotics World Championships<\/a> \u2013 where custom-built robots compete by throwing balls over a truss, catching balls, and putting as many balls in goals as possible. My very own hometown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walpolerobotics.org\/\">Walpole Robo-Rebels<\/a> were division finalists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students.sae.org\/cds\/bajasae\/midwest\/\">Baja SAE<\/a> \u2013 where engineering students are tasked to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students.sae.org\/cds\/aerodesign\/about.htm\">SAE Aero Design<\/a> \u00a0\u2013 where teams strive to achieve autonomous flight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Resolution_plain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21938\" alt=\"Resolution_plain\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Resolution_plain-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Resolution_plain-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Resolution_plain-615x345.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Resolution_plain-120x67.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>How do student teams use SOLIDWORKS in engineering competitions? One of our newer case studies on the Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) team answers that question. The CUER team is a group of 60 students at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom who build and race solar-powered vehicles. Since its founding in 2007, CUER has grown to become the top UK developer of solar-powered vehicle technologies and a leading contender to win the 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsolarchallenge.org\/\">World Solar Challenge.<\/a> Fulfilling CUER\u2019s mission and developing competitive solar cars required an easy-to-use, yet robust, 3D design platform.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how the team is using SOLIDWORKS at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/successes\/customer-story.htm?record=Cambridge-University-Eco-Racing&amp;id=5550\">https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/successes\/customer-story.htm?record=Cambridge-University-Eco-Racing&amp;id=5550<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow competition news and other Education updates at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/\">SOLIDWORKS Teacher Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I love about working for SOLIDWORKS is our Education Program (I\u2019m a teacher\u2019s kid, so education is something near and dear to my heart). Spring is a busy time for the SOLIDWORKS Education Team. They release<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/05\/building-competitive-teams-with-solidworks-education-edition.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":21938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,14,17,18],"tags":[40,41,453,452,133,19],"class_list":["post-21936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-customer-stories","category-design","category-education","category-solidworks","tag-3d-cad","tag-3d-design","tag-customers","tag-education-2","tag-engineering","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}