SpaceX announced in June that it will be holding a competition for the design of the Hyperloop pod, which will shuttle human passengers in a closed system of transportation tubes. Its first phase will begin Friday, as college students flock to the Texas A&M University to showcase their ideas.
This stage of the competition, which is dubbed as SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition Design Weekend, will be participated by as much as 120 teams, according to the organizers. Four teams composed of high school students are also competing, and a winner from this batch will be sponsored by Nickelodeon. The teams will present their respective concepts to attract sponsors, who will then fund the development of the actual model of their proposals. The winning team, which will be selected after the final phase is completed in the summer of 2016, gets to test their pod in a specialized track to be built later this year, Popular Science reported.
