ECE Professor Races Toward Mentor Award

Solar go-karts head for the track at the 2015 race day held April 25 at Musselman Honda Circuit in Tucson, Arizona.

Tech Parks Arizona celebrated the fifth year of its high school solar go-kart competition, Racing the Sun, with a special award presentation for longtime mentors like ECE professor Kelly Potter.

"Kelly has been with the program since the beginning, and we wanted to give her the Five-Year Mentor Award in recognition of the valuable contributions she's made," said Brenda Hough, program coordinator for Racing the Sun and community outreach coordinator for Tech Parks Arizona, a unit of Tech Launch Arizona, the University's technology commercialization arm.