Our Business Team runs all of the behind-the-scenes operations for the MS XIV team. …

Due to the ongoing pandemic situation, Midnight Sun was unfortunately unable to hire co-op students in the Spring of 2020. However, we were able to return to onsite work in the Fall 2020 term with restrictions in order to keep our students, the university, and the community safe. …

Midnight Sun has had the privilege of working with Keysight Technologies for just over a year and their support has been an integral part of our successes as a student team. …

We hope everyone is doing well and staying safe during these times! The last few months have seen some unexpected challenges due to the impact of COVID-19, and we hope you all have been able to overcome them. We would like to thank everyone for your continued support of Midnight…

The University of Waterloo is well-known for its extensive co-op program that allows students to develop skills in a working environment through internships during their academic career. Here at Midnight Sun, we have had the pleasure of providing opportunities to students seeking to take on full-time, co-op, positions on the…

The Fall 2019 term was definitely a busy period for Midnight Sun, and especially for the Battery Box team. During that term, they worked hard to meet key milestones of the battery pack build. …

Our Hardware team designs, assembles, and conducts validation testing on all the electrical subsystems of our solar car. These include the power distribution, battery management system, solar, as well as driver and motor controls. …

Original Time Stamp: November 13th, 2019 (Originally posted on uwmidsun.com and has now been moved to Medium) In the last 5 years, additive manufacturing has taken a huge leap forward in availability and capability. With these new technologies, components that were previously machined or molded can now be printed on…

Original Time Stamp: November 13th, 2019 (Originally posted on uwmidsun.com and has now been moved to Medium) Towards the end of the Winter 2019 term, we added the finishing touches on the aerobody design of our next car, MS-XIV. The Aerobody team has put together a short paper that describes the design process and how the team collaborated with SimScale, one of Midnight Sun’s sponsors, to use Computational Fluid Dynamics to improve the car’s efficiency.