Comet Solar Racing at The University of Texas at Dallas is a newly established student-run and student elected competition team focused on providing students with the resources and knowledge to be competitive in prestigious cross-country solar challenges around the world.The team aims to provide unparalleled project experience to students of various engineering and business backgrounds. This will help students to develop important skills that complement their theoretical learning that include applied engineering, project management, leadership, delegation, finance, collaboration, and professionalism. As an organization, we aim to be a nurturing ground for the next generation of leaders in green mobility.

A solar panel is built from many individual cells called solar cells. These solar cells are the ones responsible to convert the sunlight into electrical energy. A typical solar cell usually output a voltage of 0.5V and have an area of 152mm2. The cells are soldered in series together and are encapsulated with special layer of films to protect the cells from being corroded by the harsh UV ray.

Adopt-A-Cell program is a program where the crowd gets the chance to be part of the history. The program is simple; select one of the packages and get a chance to adopt a battery cell, and a solar cell. We will also give out some other gifts along with the package.

Check out one of our Adopt-a-Cell packages below, and choose one that suits you!

Adoption tiers:

Basic Benefits: Acknowledgement on the website, personalized thank you letter

$10 (one battery cell)

Perks - Basic Benefits

$15 (one solar cell)

Perks - Basic Benefits & solar ranger sticker

$25 (1 Battery cell & Solar cell)

Perks- Basic Benefits, solar ranger sticker & team t-shirt [Team members get a complimentary key-chain]

$50 (5 Battery Cells)

Perks - Basic Benefits, solar ranger sticker, CSR car sticker & team t-shirt [Team members get a complimentary key-chain]

$75 (Adopt 5 solar cells)

Perks - Basic Benefits, solar ranger sticker, CSR poster & team t-shirt [Team members get a complimentary key-chain]

$100 (10 battery cells)

Perks - Basic Benefits, solar ranger sticker, CSR poster, personalized thank you video from a team member & team t-shirt [Team members get a complimentary key-chain]

$150 (10 Solar Cells)

Perks - Basic Benefits, solar ranger sticker, CSR mug, personalized thank you video from a team member & team t-shirt [Team members get a complimentary key-chain]

$200 (Adopt a battery pack)

Perks - Basic Benefits, solar ranger sticker, 3D printed model of the vehicle, personalized thank you video from a team member & team t-shirt [Team members get a complimentary key-chain]

$300 (Adopt a Solar Array)

Perks - Basic Benefits, solar ranger sticker, 3D printed model of the vehicle, personalized thank you video from a team member, an acknowledgment in annual newsletter & team t-shirt [Team members get a complimentary key-chain]

Thank you for your donation! We will put it to good use.

Please either Venmo us or send us cash with your Full name, and we will get you your swag as soon as we can!

Venmo: @CometSolarRacing

Thank you for helping us, your donation will be put to good use!