2A — THE OBSERVER
D AILY
P LANNER
TODAY
Today is Friday, Jan. 3,
the third day of 2020. There
are 363 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Jan. 3, 2008, Illinois
Sen. Barack Obama won
Democratic caucuses in
Iowa, while Mike Hucka-
bee won the Republican
caucuses.
ON THIS DATE
In 1833, Britain seized
control of the Falkland Is-
lands in the South Atlantic.
In 1868, Japan’s Meiji
Restoration re-established
the authority of the emperor
and heralded the fall of
the military rulers known
as shoguns; the upheaval
paved the way for Japan’s
drive toward becoming a
modern power.
In 1938, the March of Dimes
campaign to fi ght polio was
established by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
himself had been affl icted
with the crippling disease.
In 1961, President Dwight
D. Eisenhower announced the
United States was formally
terminating diplomatic and
consular relations with Cuba.
In 1967, Jack Ruby, the
man who shot and killed
Lee Harvey Oswald, the ac-
cused assassin of President
John F. Kennedy, died in a
Dallas hospital.
In 1977, Apple Computer
was incorporated in Cuper-
tino, California, by Steve
Jobs, Steve Wozniak and
Mike Markkula Jr.
In 1990, ousted Panama-
nian leader Manuel Noriega
surrendered to U.S. forces, 10
days after taking refuge in the
Vatican’s diplomatic mission.
In 2013, students from
Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Con-
necticut, reconvened at a dif-
ferent building in the town of
Monroe about three weeks
after the massacre that had
claimed the lives of 20 fi rst-
graders and six educators.
CORRECTION
In the Jan. 1 article, “City
drops ball on 2020” the cor-
rect name for the building
where the ball dropped is
the Pheonix Building.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Not all who wander are
lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien,
English author
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2020
LOCAL
Bend
police
make 2
arrests
Across
the
Outback
■ Baker County woman
part of team that
designed, built solar-
powered car to compete in
competition in Australia
Submitted photo
Sarah Spaugh of Baker County helped design and build Stanford Univer-
sity’s solar-powered car that competed in an international competition last
fall in Australia.
By Brenna Visser
behind schedule,” she said.
They should have had the vehicle
By Lisa Britton
For EO Media Group
fi nished and tested by the beginning of
June 2019. But that month found the
BAKER CITY — Sarah Spaugh’s
team members working from 9 a.m. to
story seems to end almost before it
midnight in a rush to complete the car.
starts.
The team designs every part of the
Her story about racing a solar-
car. Some pieces they make on campus,
powered car across the Australian
while others are created by profes-
Outback, anyway.
sional machinists.
“Our car did not, unfortunate-
“It’s very much ground up,”
ly, fi nish the race,” Spaugh said.
Spaugh said.
“Our battery caught on fi re — it
Her team didn’t have much
burned up on the side of the road
chance to test their design be-
in the middle of the Outback.”
fore shipping the car to Austra-
Spaugh, 23, grew up in
lia in August.
McEwen, near Sumpter. She has
Spaugh
And testing is crucial to any
earned her bachelor’s degree in
mechanical engineering from Stanford invention.
“When you build something from
University, and this month begins
scratch, the fi rst time you take it out
studying for her master’s degree in
things will start breaking,” Spaugh
electrical engineering.
said. “It’s worth it, a trial by fi re.”
Every two years a team from
Creating the car, she said, allows
Stanford enters a solar car in the
students to put theories learned in class-
Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in
rooms to work on a real-world project.
Australia. The event, according to its
“The learning happens when you’re
website, “is primarily a design com-
designing, building, testing,” she said.
petition to discover the world’s most
She learned a lot about how cars
effi cient electric car.”
work.
Spaugh joined her fi rst solar car
“I had a decent idea of how it
team in 2016 during her junior year
worked in a gasoline car,” she said.
at Palo Alto — halfway through the
“This showed me how it works in an
two-year cycle.
electric car, down to the nitty-gritty.”
“A full car is a two-year project,” she
said. “You spend six months just on
Heading Down Under
aerodynamics.”
That car raced in October 2017. She
To compete in the race, Spaugh and
was part of the tech crew.
her teammates took a term off school.
Spaugh’s more recent solar car
She arrived in Australia on Aug. 28 to
project ran from 2017 to the race in
arrange transportation, food and other
October 2019. This time she was on
logistics of supporting a team through
the leadership team.
the middle of the continent.
The competition has been a Stanford
The rest of the team arrived Sept.
tradition since the late 1980s.
4. They spent the remainder of that
“It’s an established student club —
month testing and tweaking their so-
one of the more life-consuming clubs,”
lar car while camping in the Outback.
she said.
Growing up in Eastern Oregon,
One year ago Spaugh’s team of 22
Spaugh is no stranger to the outdoors.
students created a timeline for fi nish-
That wasn’t the case with some of her
ing the car’s subsystems.
teammates.
“We’re notorious as a team for falling
“You have people who had never
camped in their lives,” she said.
During testing the Stanford team
traveled the race course in reverse,
from Adelaide north to Darwin. The
route is approximately 3,000 kilome-
ters (1,864 miles).
“It’s a big experience being there,”
Spaugh said. “Getting the car function-
ing, and fi xing it when it breaks down.”
During tests the team recorded data
to determine how much energy the car
uses at various speeds.
The goal, Spaugh said, was “to get
the fastest time possible without run-
ning out of battery.”
On a fl at road with no wind, she
estimates the Stanford car could go
about 250 miles at 55 mph.
The team had fi ve rental vehicles to
haul supplies and one was outfi tted
with antennae to collect data transmit-
ted from the solar car.
Although they’d struggled with a
bug in the electrical system and issues
with the motor controller, Spaugh said
the car was working great as race day
approached.
The Challenge ran from Oct. 13 to
Oct. 20. The route started in Darwin
in the Northern Territory and traveled
the Stuart Highway to Port Augusta,
and then Highway 1 to fi nish in Ad-
elaide in South Australia.
The remote nature of inland Austra-
lia requires careful planning for gas
stops and food supplies.
“There’s a stretch where you go a
couple days without a grocery store,”
Spaugh said.
The battery fi re that ended the
Stanford team’s race is still a bit of a
mystery. The students know it was
caused by a short circuit, but they will
have to wait until the car returns in a
few months to investigate.
“Then we use it to teach the next
generation of team how to solar car. Or
how to not solar car,” Spaugh said with
a smile. “A big thing in engineering is
learning from your mistakes.”
Oregon could get new
Congressional seat
■ 2020 Census
could yield sixth
seat for the state
By Jeff Mapes
Numbers get bigger
The new estimates show Oregon grew by 0.9% between
July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019, to a total population of
4,217,737. The state came close to gaining a sixth seat in 2010,
and the state’s growth since then has been relatively strong.
Oregon Public Broadcasting
SALEM — As the nation
heads into the 2020 Census,
Oregon appears more likely
than ever to gain a sixth
congressional seat, according
to new population estimates.
The Census Bureau
estimates released Monday
show that Oregon’s popula-
tion growth — while slowing
in the past year — remains
strong enough to put the
state in line for another seat.
“I think you’re probably
looking good” to gain an
additional seat, said Kimball
Brace, president of Election
Data Services of Virginia.
His fi rm uses several differ-
ent models to project how
congressional seats may be
apportioned, and he said all
of them show a sixth seat for
Oregon.
However, he and other
forecasters caution that
some uncertainties remain.
There’s been controversy
over whether some immi-
grant communities will be
hesitant to participate in
the 2020 Census given the
Trump administration’s
moves to crack down on
illegal immigration. And a
major natural disaster or big
economic shock could also
have a sudden impact on the
■ Human
trafficking
investigation leads
to two arrests
state’s population. Brace said
California is on the verge of
losing a congressional seat
for the fi rst time in that
state’s history, particularly if
there’s an undercount among
immigrants there.
The new estimates show
Oregon grew by 0.9% be-
tween July 1, 2018, and July
1, 2019, to a total popula-
tion of 4,217,737. The state
came close to gaining a sixth
seat in 2010, and the state’s
growth since then has been
relatively strong.
Under current law, it’s the
job of the Oregon Legislature
and Gov. Kate Brown to
redraw district lines for both
Congress and for legislative
seats. However, the Oregon
League of Women Voters and
several other groups want to
put an initiative on the ballot
next year that would turn
the job over to an indepen-
dent commission.
Four of Oregon’s fi ve con-
gressional seats are now held
by Democrats. Both major po-
litical parties have been look-
ing at how they could draw
the lines of a new district to
maximize their chances of
winning an additional seat.
FAMILY
OWNED
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BEND — Two people were
arrested during a human
traffi cking investigation in
southeast Bend on Christ-
mas Eve.
Around 1:20 p.m. Dec.
24, Bend police pulled over
a stolen 2009 silver Dodge
Charger near the intersec-
tion of Southeast Murphy
and Southeast Country Club
roads.
Jennifer Marie Johnson, a
40-year-old Portland resi-
dent, and Tyler John Charles
Ford, a 29-year-old Gresham
resident, were in the car
along with a 15-year-old girl
from Portland.
Offi cers identifi ed the teen-
age girl as a missing person
out of the Portland area.
Throughout the investiga-
tion, offi cers believed the
teenager was being groomed
for work in the commercial
sex trade.
Heroin and methamphet-
amine were seized from the
vehicle, along with stolen and
forged identifi cation docu-
ments. Several of the recov-
ered documents were linked
to thefts in the Portland area.
Johnson was jailed on
suspicion of 10 counts each
of identity theft, fi rst-degree
forgery and criminal posses-
sion of a forged instrument,
and one count each of prosti-
tution and unlawful posses-
sion of methamphetamine.
Ford was jailed on suspi-
cion of unlawful possession
of heroin and was found to
be in violation of a restrain-
ing order for being in contact
with the 15-year-old juvenile
female in the vehicle.
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