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- a student design team building a commuter pod to one day take you from Toronto to Montreal in 30 minutes - will test their prototype at the on January 27-29.

蓝莓视频p鈥檚 technical lead Yazan Obeidi said he and another team member will be driving the prototype to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California this week. They will compete against 23 finalists from around the world including the Massechusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

鈥淓ven though the competition in California is this week, we鈥檙e just getting started,鈥� said Obeidi. 鈥淲e鈥檝e learned so much from the last four months. You can鈥檛 put it into words; all the hands on experience.鈥�

Team 蓝莓视频p members working on their Hyperloop pod, the Goose 1.

About 150 students from all six of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 faculties have contributed to the 蓝莓视频p team. Obeidi said this week鈥檚 competition is just 鈥渢he start of a new era for 蓝莓视频p.鈥� The team will continue to develop their prototype in preparation for the next SpaceX competition in Summer 2017.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 the great thing about being on a student design team. It鈥檚 not just about solving equations,鈥� said Obeidi. 鈥淵ou go out and lay down 300 feet of track and find out what happens when you are only slightly off center,鈥� says Obeidi. 鈥淵ou have to tear it down and build it again.鈥�

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