With only a week until Shell Eco-marathon, we here at MadSCI ran our car for the first time. Although this is our fourth car, the feeling of accomplishment never seems to dull, and the pride that has stemmed from that has completely invigorated the team. We don’t expect to bury the competition, nor is that the reason any of us do this the first place. Yes, it’s fun to build and race it, but I like to think our group sees past those novelties. We don’t do this for the trophies (we don’t even have any). We don’t do it for the races, nor do we do this for the free t-shirts. We do it for us; to show that