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Engineering students need cash for solar car competition

By Ty Tagami
June 4, 2012

High school engineering students are pleading for last-minute sponsors to help them finish a solar car for the Winston Solar Challenge in Texas.

The event starts July 14, but the team -- which includes students and recent graduates from Cross Keys High School in DeKalb County and from the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology -- must finish by July 1.

The students need about $8,000 to refurbish a motor controller. Contact team director Patrick Gunter at (864) 590-9004, Pgunter7@gmail.comor Renae Irving at Renaeirving@gmail.com.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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