The EPFLoop team is in the United States where, on Sunday, it will take part in the Hyperloop Pod Competition being organized by the founder of SpaceX. The team hopes its pod will be the fastest to race down a 1.5-kilometer track at speeds expected to reach several hundred kilometers per hour. After months of hard work, they're finally on the home stretch. The students on the EPFLoop team are currently headed to California where they will see how their lightning-fast pod stacks up against the competition. EPFL President Martin Vetterli will be on hand to cheer the students on in this extraordinary challenge. The race will be held on 22 July in Hawthorne, California. EPFL's team labored day and night during this final week of testing, and they now feel that their chances are "very good." Throughout the project, they have been able to call on the support of Mario Paolone, a professor in EPFL's Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory.
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