Announcing the first-ever Colorado Hyperloop Workshop
Last year, members of the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Hyperloop team traveled to SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA for the Hyperloop Pod Competition.
is a conceptual transportation technology first proposed by Elon Musk in 2012. Potentially capable of speeds up to 760 mph, the concept could enable traveling across the United States – and other places around the world – in a fraction of the time it takes now. In 2015, SpaceX began a student . Every year since, and SpaceX have hosted this competition where university student teams are tasked with designing and building a hyperloop pod with various criteria being judged, e.g. going as fast as possible.
To help prepare for this competition, the University of Colorado Boulder is announcing a first-ever Colorado Hyperloop Workshop to be held right here in Boulder, Colorado. ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Hyperloop, one of the hyperloop teams at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, believes that collaboration is important to being successful and advancing the technology needed for hyperloop. That’s why we’re hosting this workshop, an event aimed at bringing together local hyperloop teams from across Colorado to share their ideas and work towards making Colorado a hub for hyperloop development.
The Colorado Hyperloop Workshop will be held on Saturday, Jan. 19, in the Idea Forge at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, and is scheduled to run from 3-6 p.m. Currently about 45 members from five hyperloop teams here in Colorado will be present, including:
- (¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder)
- (¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder)
- (Colorado School of Mines)
- (¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Denver)
- (¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Colorado Springs)
These teams will work together to discuss their concepts for the upcoming and help solidify a network where team members and students can work together to compete.
Interested? If you or a member of another hyperloop team would like to attend, please email ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Hyperloop at cuhyperloop@colorado.edu or on .
Cole Kenny is a junior in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.