 We're here at the start of the 2013 World Solar Challenge. None of us have slept all night, waking every hour in anticipation of the day. For the next couple of days, our team will be driving around 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback. Across this inhospitable land on the planet. Actually being out there and driving a car that you built yourself is just incredible. One of the cool things about our team is that we're completely student run. I'm an economics major at Stanford. I'm majoring in mechanical engineering. I'm an electrical engineer on the project. My major is computer science. Computer science. Most of the students in our team find it really easy to find really great jobs when they graduate from Stanford. I think it matters more than most classes you can take. Just the absolute best training ground for new engineers. Wonderful experience. This past race was one of the most exciting in our recent history. We're looking for a top five finish hopefully in this year's race. There's always an after a little bit of a competition between Michigan and Stanford. We wanted to beat them. They wanted to beat us. That's a good rivalry. With a solar panel you can see your power drop to near zero with a cloud in front of the sun. It's really a scary game to play when you don't know if you're going to make it to the very end. It was a nail biter. Made it! Yeah! There will be classes that you took that you don't remember at all. But going to Australia and driving your car across a continent under the power of the sun and only under the power of the sun together with your friends is a defining experience that you will remember until the day you die.