{"id":5894,"date":"2014-05-09T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2014-05-09T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T11:01:45","slug":"building-competitive-teams-with-the-solidworks-education-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/05\/building-competitive-teams-with-the-solidworks-education-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Building Competitive Teams with the SolidWorks Education Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Kristen Wilson for sharing with the SolidWorks Community, republished from the SolidWorks blog. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n<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\" \/><\/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>Thank you Kristen Wilson for sharing with the SolidWorks Community, republished from the SolidWorks blog. \u00a0Marie 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<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/05\/building-competitive-teams-with-the-solidworks-education-edition.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5207,5381,4015,5219,4084,5205,5211],"tags":[4545,4048,5158,4549,5699,4663,3931,3990],"class_list":["post-5894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-2","category-cad-2","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","category-sae","category-stem-course","category-technology-2","tag-competition","tag-engineering","tag-first-robotics","tag-frc","tag-sae","tag-solar","tag-solidworks","tag-stem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}