Solar Challenge
In 1990, a solar car team from Konawaena was the first high school team to complete the World Solar Challenge. The 1996 movie Race the Sun, starring Halle Berry, Steve Hogan and James Belushi was loosely based on this story. Bill Woerner, the real-life teacher who led the team, later founded the charter school West Hawaii Explorations Academy.
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Hamar: They are solar boats for Pharaoh to use after his death. They’re the means by which Pharaoh will journey across the skies with the sun, with the god Horus. Each day they will sail from east to west, and each night Pharaoh will return to the east by the river which runs underneath the earth.”
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