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  • What: Solar Oven Throw Down
  • When: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1-2:30 p.m.
  • Where: UA Mall
TUCSON, Ariz. — University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins will join nearly 600 UA engineering students as they compete in a mass cook-off, testing and demonstrating low-cost solar ovens they designed and built from scratch. Freshmen showcase their creativity and math prowess in a bid to calculate the expected temperatures of their thermodynamic designs.

Faculty and industry judges will select winners and award prizes. The event is sponsored by W.L. Gore & Associates.


 
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Contacts:
Brian Cunningham

UA College of Engineering

520-626-1780
bcunning@email.arizona.edu

Pete Brown 

UA College of Engineering

520-621-3754

pnb@email.arizona.edu

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