// Santa Clara is now offering a new major in Archineering: Engineering with an understanding of Architecture. I'm actually lying, but that is what a project like the Solar Decathlon teaches you: to empathize with the environment you are engineering within. This is how we understand to appropriately place lightshelfs, and place rainwater pipe so it doesn't compromise the view of Module A. To see pictures of our progress, please don't forget to visit our photobucket site.

// Check out some pictures from InterSolar 2009. We were given an inline booth with drapes and pipe. The event was 3 days, which definitely took a toll on other work that I needed to do, but we made great contacts and had a great time there, so it was worth it! We should be in some more pictures and will have some more story leads from it! I will keep you updated! =D Click here to view them.

// Wow, what a busy week. Intersolar just ended yesterday, and we've already had 3 tours from people we met at the conference. We hope there are many more to come! We'd like to thank Nicholas Wagner and Diana Doppe for their support and letting us attend. Additionally, we'd like to remind everyone that tours of the site are available and to click here for more information.

// Our GD team, finished the blog! You can now see what we are doing on a daily basis. Every week we will show what has changed in the house, via our Photobucket account. Also, blogs from earlier in the summer will also be available. Keep updated!

// Today is the first day of tour training! Although it is a time commitment, it will help everyone talk with ease in front of crowds. To improve performance during the tours in DC, we have begun training that first works on the way we speak and then what type of image we portray to the public. Plus everyone is so involved in the house and everyone knows so much about it, it is hard to step back and see the simple truths of the house. Keep updated as we will soon begin uploading videos of the training.