First day at Purdue, we had a early kickstart meeting straight after breakfast.

Obviously our first priority is to locate the crate containing our kart...

With almost hundreds of phone conversations, a piece of bad news eventually kicked in.

Due to some unforseenable delays to the delivery schedule, our kart was still moving slowly somewhere on Lake Michigan... hopefully arriving in Chicago tomorrow...

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Keep calm and carry on, it's not time to panic.

With some luck we might be able to meet up with our kart again by Thursday or so, fingers crossed!

Despite a bit of disappointment not being able to reunite with our kart soon, we headed into Purdue University's campus and met some of our old friends we made here last year.

A few more quick glance at some of the other electric karts getting ready for the race.

Eventually we decided to establish some international co-operation and help building the kart with a Purdue team for the next few days. Definitely a way to help out and learn from each other!

Oh, and on a side note, the environment here in Purdue is just amazing!