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Photos of the Day — October 5, 2007

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Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman greets the team from Michigan's Lawrence Technological University. (Credit: Ken Shipp/Solar Decathlon)
Secretary Bodman, Richard King, and two University of Illinois team members stand together laughing, with the team’s house and the adjacent MIT house in the background.

Secretary Bodman and DOE's Richard King share a laugh with members of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign team. (Credit: Ken Shipp/Solar Decathlon)
Photo of the interior of a narrow building, where one young man works on equipment in the ceiling and another carries a piece of metal while climbing a ladder.

The team from Carnegie Mellon University are hard at work on the interior of their house. (Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon)
Photo of a young woman in a hardhat leaning against a wall with her legs crossed, a laptop computer in her lap. The surrounding room shows evidence of ongoing construction, and a ladder is visible through an adjacent window.

Heather Korb of the New York Institute of Technology finds a quiet moment to use her computer. Sprint started providing high-speed wireless Internet to the Solar Decathlon on Thursday afternoon. In the spirit of the cutting-edge competition, the company sends its research engineers to the event to test out the company's most advanced equipment. (Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon)
Aerial view of the Solar Decathlon from the west end, showing that many houses have taken shape. On the left, members of Lawrence Technological University are installing solar panels on their roof. In the background is the Capitol building.

The exteriors of many homes are now nearing completion, and a number of teams took to their roofs today to install solar panels. (Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon)
On a sloping rooftop and wearing safety equipment, a young man sits and wires a solar panel while an older man holds the solar panel in place. In the foreground is a solar panel that has already been installed.

Harold Remlinger and Brian Eady of the Lawrence Technological University install solar panels on the roof of the team's home. (Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon)
Photo of three men on the roof of a house, wearing safety gear and installing solar panels. The Capitol building is in the background.

The University of Maryland team was also installing its solar panels today. (Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon)
Photo of a young woman and a smiling older man wearing safety gear and crouching under a rack holding solar panels, with trusses that hold the rack running on both sides and behind the two people.

Mike Howell and Jennifer Ny work on the roof of the Cornell House to wire up the team's solar panels. (Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon)

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