Life Lessons from a Solar Car: Rachel Abril at TEDxStanford

Rachel Abril is the business/logistics team leader for the Stanford Solar Car Project, which began in 1989 and is an entirely student-run, nonprofit organization fueled by its members' passion for environmentally sustainable technology. The team designs and builds solar-powered cars to race in the 1,864-mile-long World Solar Challenge across the Australian Outback. This year, the club took fourth place. Providing a unique opportunity for Stanford students to gain hands-on engineering and business experience, the club fosters a tight-knit community of students with diverse backgrounds and levels of experience.

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