Class of 2014 HF-L graduate and current RIT engineering student Solomiya Vysochanska (top row second from right in above picture) along with her Imaging Science classmates won the Innovation Award at the Hyperloop competition at Texas A&M during the last week of January.
Hyperloop is a high-speed transportation concept funded by Space-X. The goal is to carry people and cargo between Los Angeles and San Francisco in just 35 minutes. The RIT group won the award for designing an optical communications system with the intent of replacing and outperforming the Wi-Fi system. They were presented with a small-scale tube with a piece of Hyperloop’s test track inside, signed by Elon Musk, who made a surprise appearance at the competition.
Vysochanska was introduced to the Imaging Science field of study by local physics teacher Bob Callens who runs a summer high school intern program at RIT. She was an intern in the program during the summer of 2013 where she collaborated with local STEM students in an effort to explore scientific research and design. Congratulations to her. For more information regarding RIT’s role in the project see http://hyperloop.rit.edu/. Information about the summer high school intern program can found at http://cis.rit.edu/outreach/summer-high-school-intern-program.
