A team of Windsor students who competed in the Space-X Hyperloop Pod Competition are coming home with a strong resolve to return next year.
UWindsor Faculty of Engineering spokesperson Kristie Pearce says the team of University and St. Clair College students didn't place in the final round of competition.
Pearce tells CTV News the group was unable to complete a number of safety checks required for the next level and they along with two other Canadian teams are now done.
In fact out of the 21 teams, only four will continue in this year's global competition.
The first year competition challenges students to build a functional, scaled down prototype that can propel at maximum speed and stop within 100 feet of the end of Space-X's vacuum test track.
The Windsor team raised nearly $135,000 in donations, sponsorships, and in-kind contributions to fund the construction of the pod.
The competition is taking place at the Space-X headquarters in California, a rocket and spacecraft company spearheaded by Elon Musk.
