In case you haven’t been following our updates, this past Saturday, June 9th, marked the end of the five day Solar Splash 25th competition! The World Championship started on Tuesday, June 5th at the Clark County Fairgrounds Lake in Springfield, Ohio and it continued on for a successful five days!
The team at UPS Battery Center Blog had the pleasure to attend the last two days of the competition and we had an absolutely amazing experience! We will be discussing our experience in another post but for now, let’s get to the Solar Splash 2018 winners.
2018 Winners
All 12 participating teams did extremely well and even if they did not rank where they wanted to, they sure came out with more knowledge and experience than they would have expected!
However, if we’re talking about finalists…here they are:
*drum roll please*
And the team who won the Solar Splash 2018 competition is………………………..Cedarville University!!!
The top 10 Solar Splash 2018 Winners are:
| SOLAR SPLASH 2018 Awards | |||
| Overall | |||
| Collegiate World Champion | Cedarville University | ||
| Second Place | University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez | ||
| Third Place | University of New Orleans | ||
| Fourth Place | University of New Mexico | ||
| Fifth Place | Stevens Institute of Technology | ||
| Sixth Place | University of Sherbrooke | ||
| Seventh Place | Carnegie Mellon University | ||
| Eighth Place | Middle Tennessee State University | ||
| Ninth Place | Cal-Poly Pomona | ||
| Tenth Place | University of Southern Indiana | ||
This year marks the 4th win in a row for the Cedarville University! Check out their post highlighting their experience at the event: https://www.cedarville.edu/News/2018/Solar-Splash-4-Peat.aspx
Keep an out for our blog as we have many Solar Splash posts coming your way! We had the pleasure of speaking to and interviewing some of the running Solar Splash teams while we were there so we are excited to be posting about them!
Thanks for reading! What was your favorite moment of the Solar Splash competition?
Related:
The Solar Splash Competition is about to Start!
