American Solar Challenge Stops in Mountain Home

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign check over their solar car "Argo" during the stop at the checkpoint located at the Mountain Home Walmart

The American Solar Challenge has been running every two years since 1987. The goal of the challenge is to complete a predetermined route in the lowest overall elapsed time. On July 20 teams stopped for their seventh checkpoint on the journey.

The solar cars and their teams must pass inspections and a qualifier known as the Formula Sun Grand Prix before they are chosen to participate in the roughly 1,700 mile journey which travels along portions of the Oregon Trail. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition.