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Discuss “CMU students prepare for Solar Decathlon”

by Ann Wootton

Junior Staffwriter

Carnegie Mellon students are leading the Pittsburgh Synergy team designing and building a solar house for the worldwide Solar Decathlon competition. Next October, teams from colleges around the world will come together in Washington, D.C., to present their solar houses on the National Mall as a ?solar village.? Organizers of the competition hope that the designs will ?show us how we can live with abundance and comfort in beautiful, energy-efficient, completely solar-powered homes.?

Pittsburgh Synergy?s multidisciplinary team of architects, designers and engineers brings together over 50 students from Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh to collaborate on different...

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