Friday, November 4, 2016

Announcing 2017 Spartan Superway Summer Workshop

The Solar Skyways Network is now reaching out to students from universities around the world to join us for the summer months of June and July (2017) as interns at the Spartan Superway Design Center in Silicon Valley. There you will collaborate with your peers from several countries to continue the multidisciplinary development of elevated solar powered public transit under the guidance of professors, mentors from industry, and guest experts. You will work in a well-equipped shop and will have support to obtain software and materials from a wide range of well-stocked suppliers and proficient specialty fabricators in Silicon Valley.
Spartan Superway Design Center
St. John Station
To date the Spartan Superway has hosted interns from universities in Brazil, France, South Korea, Sweden, and the USA — in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Summer 2015
Summer 2016
Reports of the interns' accomplishments to date can be found in the extensive INIST online library as well as in their blogs. (See links on the Spartan Superway blog).

To learn more

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Friday, August 19, 2016

Three Garages

Two garages have had a great impact on Silicon Valley.

Hewlett-Packard Garage 1939
Birthplace of Silicon Valley
Steve Jobs' Parents' Garage 1976

And now there's another garage in town, holding up the Silicon Valley tradition.

Spartan Superway Design Center
(before the transformation)
128 East Saint John Street, San Jose

Thanks to the folks at Exhibition District, creating amazing opportunities that make San José attractive to new investment and strong talent, the Spartan Superway Design Center (a.k.a. Garage) has a fresh new look.

SSDC now shows how Spartan Superway will look in downtown San José.

The Spartan Superway team at San José State is conducting advanced R&D to develop the first Sustainable Mobility System for Silicon Valley.

The 2016-2017 Spartan Superway team


Saturday, June 18, 2016

The Summer 2016 Team is hard at work designing and prototyping the Spartan Superway

Introducing the summer 2016 team of interns from the USA, Brazil, France and South Korea.


20 Engineering interns from Brazil
and 4 San Jose State interns in June, before the others arrived

 
Interns from France arrived just in time for Intersolar

Interns from South Korea also arrived in early July
and they joined us at Intersolar in San Francisco

See more details on the Spartan Superway blog. (Team blogs are on the left, individual blogs are on the right.)

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Solar Skyways / Spartan Superway Summer Program 2016

We are now accepting applications for the Solar Skyways / Spartan Superway summer internship program at the Spartan Superway Design Center in San José, California.

You can send your resumé to [ ecosystems at econet.org ] with subject line beginning [Solar Skyways] ... and please be sure to reply to the automatic response which clears your email for delivery.

We are interested especially in student teams who have already begun working together on some aspect of S.A.N.E. transportation (S=Solar, A=Automated, N=Nonstop Network, origin to destination, E=Elevated).

More details will be available here soon.