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22 Teams PROCEED
TO Prototype Testing
IN CALIFORNIA
H
yperloop Technologies Inc.
proudly announced that as a
sponsor of the SpaceX Hyperloop
Pod Design Weekend January 29-
30 at Texas A&M, they will offer
$150,000 in prize money to teams
who present the strongest design concepts.
Hyperloop Tech will work with the select-
ed teams to provide resources and offset
the costs of building the pod in support of
student innovation in engineering.

After deliberate judging, more
than 115 students engineering teams rep-
resenting 27 U.S. states and 20 countries
were trimmed down to 22 to advance in
the next stage of the SpaceX’s Hyperloop
Pod Competition. The selected teams will
head to California this summer to test
their design prototype at the world’s first
Hyperloop Test Track.

Important criteria were consid-
ered to select the qualifiers: innovation
and uniqueness of design, full Hyperloop
system applicability and economics, level
of design detail, strength of supporting
analysis and test, feasibility for test tract
competition, and quality of documentation
and presentation.
BEST OVERALL DESIGN AWARD:
MIT Hyperloop Team, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
POD INNOVATION AWARD:
Delft Hyperloop, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
POD TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD:
Badgerloop, University of Wisconsin-Madison
POD TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD:
Hyperloop at Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech
POD TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD:
HyperXite, University of California Irvine
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WINNING TEAMS
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MIT Hyperloop Team, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
rLoop (non-student team)
uWaterloo Hyperloop, University of Waterloo
UWashington Hyperloop, University of Washington
University of Toronto, University of Toronto
RUMD Loop, University of Maryland and Rutgers University
GatorLoop, University of Florida
Team HyperLynx, University of Colorado-Denver
Hyperloop UC, University of Cincinnati
UCSB Hyperloop, University of California-Santa Barbara
bLoop, University of California-Berkeley
TAMU Aerospace Hyperloop, Texas A&M
WARR Hyperloop, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Purdue Hyperloop Design Team, Purdue University
Codex, Oral Roberts University
Lehigh Hyperloop, Lehigh University
Keio Alpha, Keio University
Drexel Hyperloop, Drexel University
Carnegie Mellon Hyperloop, Carnegie-Mellon University