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6 <br />. as a basic prototype from which future designs can <br />evolve, which offers entrepreneural business opportunities in <br />building 3-wheeled solar powered pedal vehicles for special uses: <br />• grocery shopping <br />• getting around retirement centers <br />• inter - governmental trips <br />Participants in addition to students and teachers: <br />.Lynne Moody, Director Of Workforce Development for Orange <br />County Schools, will recruit the students to work on the Project, <br />using it as a service learning opportunity. <br />. Dam,-. Jon6p, Director of Orange County Department of Pur- <br />chasing and Central Services, will determine the proper process <br />for acquiring abandoned bicycles to use as parts. She will <br />disburse funds. <br />. Matt Hamlett, Orange High School.16acher,designer, builder, <br />creator of re- cycled products, will direct students in designing. <br />the vehicle and obtaining parts. <br />. Jason Schripsema, NCSU graduate student in Mechanical <br />Engineering and volunteer instructor for the Project, works at <br />the NC Solar Center in the Electric Car program and is helping <br />develop NCSU's solar car entry for the Sunrayces of 2001. <br />. Volunteers as needed from the Carolina Tar Wheelers <br />and the Triangle Electric Car Association. <br />. Coordinator: Marty Mandell - 967 - 9646 <br />Budget: 9700 Kit to be purchased through Jason Schripsema: <br />• Battery and motor - $450.00 <br />• Photo - voltaic -PVC- Panel - 250.00 <br />700.00 <br />• <br />