{"id":3761,"date":"2024-01-16T04:31:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3761"},"modified":"2024-01-16T04:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:31:18","slug":"cherie-pepperell-2020-heads-a-winning-team-that-is-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/article\/cherie-pepperell-2020-heads-a-winning-team-that-is-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherie Pepperell (2020) Heads a Winning Team that is Making a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Old Girl, Cherie Pepperell (2020) \u2013 part of the World Solar Challenge \u2018Cruiser Cup\u2019 winning team<\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMLC School congratulates Cherie Pepperell (2020) and the whole \u2018Sunswift Racing\u2019 team (UNSW) for a tremendous victory in a positive, future-focused event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BasicParagraph\">Occurring every two years, World Solar Challenge is the world\u2019s biggest and most prestigious solar challenge. For 36 years, it has attracted the greatest minds from around the world to Australia to push the limits of technological innovation by traveling the outback in a vehicle powered only by the energy of the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BasicParagraph\">The UNSW \u2018Sunswift 7\u2019 claimed its first Cruiser Cup victory at the 22 \u2013 29 October 2023 (Darwin to Adelaide) World Solar Challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BasicParagraph\">Teams, usually comprising of tertiary and secondary students, traverse 3,000 kilometres from Darwin to Adelaide in a solar-powered vehicle designed, engineered and built with their own hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BasicParagraph\">Participating teams enter their vehicle into one of three classes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"BasicParagraph\">\u2022 The Cruiser Class \u2013 conducted as 3 x 1,200km stages without recharging.<\/li>\n<li class=\"BasicParagraph\">\u2022 The Challenger Class \u2013 conducted in a single stage from Darwin to Adelaide.<\/li>\n<li class=\"BasicParagraph\">\u2022 The Adventure Class is a non-competitive class which provides opportunity for cars built for previous events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"BasicParagraph\">Cherie\u2019s team built the Sunswift 7 to compete for the Cruiser Cup. To win this Cup, solar electric cars must complete the journey from Darwin to Adelaide within time windows, and as energy efficiently as possible. Out of the starting ten Cruisers, six remained in contention after a drama-filled second stage fighting strong headwinds and smoky conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/community.mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au\/news\/achievements\/96\/96-Cherie-Pepperell-2020-part-of-the-World-Solar-Challenge-Cruiser-Cup-winning-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click on the link here<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Girl, Cherie Pepperell (2020) \u2013 part of the World Solar Challenge \u2018Cruiser Cup\u2019 winning team MLC School congratulates Cherie Pepperell (2020) and the whole \u2018Sunswift Racing\u2019 team (UNSW) for a tremendous victory in a positive, future-focused event Occurring every two years, World Solar Challenge is the world\u2019s biggest and most prestigious solar challenge. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3761","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-old-girls-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}