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	<title>SCU Solar Decathlon Team Blog</title>
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	<description>Creating a sustainable future today</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Guest Entry: Santa Clara Alumna</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Hendrickson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was visiting a friend in Washington Dc when I happened to stumble upon the Solar Decathlon and to my surprise and pride I saw that Santa Clara University was one of the only 20  universities present! I was later informed, by the glamorous Nora Hendrickson in her hard hat, that not only did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More in mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Sarkisian</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the team was hit hard by the architecture contest. We arrived to the site and Alberto told us the bad news- 18th place, 60 points behind the leader. After all the hard work and the immense amount of positive public responses, we had started to think the jurors would love our house. But their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Systems are a GO!</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=94</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Hendrickson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the first official day of the Decathlon competition. It was an early morning starting at 7am at our house site. We prepared the appliances for their big debut as the main stars for the day. It was appliance test day.. our first test was at 8am and was a Water Vaporization test, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy/Fun/Busy</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=93</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Sarkisian</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The mall was buzzing today as we all excitedly put the finishing touches on our houses. The Santa Clara team was optimistic, and for good reason. We passed our final inspection, one of the first five teams to do so, and the culmination of all our hard work is approaching.
Meghan and I earned baller status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazement on Arrival</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=92</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Sarkisian</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After an extended visit (and by that I mean layover) in Dallas Fort Worth I finally arrived in DC, and I could smell the Solar Decathlon from the airport. When I stepped out of the metro BAM! there&#8217;s the Solar Decathlon fully pumping with energy (solar and young persons&#8217;). I can&#8217;t wait to meet all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, October 8th: Deck Work and Horticulture</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=91</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Pioli</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ty&#8217;s father Steve and his coworker Bill arrived at the site very early in the morning to work on the deck. Those of us staying at the student house arrived later - around 7:45am - and were immediately put to work. It was Cathy&#8217;s first day at the construction site, and boy did she come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, October 7th: An Interlude and New Arrivals</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Pioli</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re getting closer and closer to our goal, but it is the same progress as usual, so I’ll just take this time to discuss some of the other interesting things that have been taking place at the National Mall.
Like I mentioned previously, all the teams competing here keep good terms with one another. No fighting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, October 6th: House Sitting and a Small Reflection</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Pioli</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the house had been put in place, we had to make sure the two modules were connected. This required the use of the hydraulic jacks again to ease the southern module into place. That had to be done before any of the south module’s photovoltaic panels could be installed, so it became a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, October 5th: The House&#8217;s Arrival and the Flags of our Nations</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=88</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Pioli</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[James had a good idea and asked me to find some national flags. They would complement the flags we already have: California State and Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering flag. The flags I was to retrieve would represent the nations each of our team members originated from. Some of our members have come from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, October 4th: All Hands on Deck</title>
		<link>http://scusolar.org/blog/?p=87</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Pioli</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We woke up in the morning at 5:30, showered, ate breakfast, and arrived at the construction site a bit before seven. We were feeling a little run down from last night&#8217;s grunt work, but we felt a lot better when Fr. Reites arrived. His plane arrived last night and he had to rest until today.
Once [...]]]></description>
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