join us!Ever thought of expressing your support of #solarimpulse in a #creative way? Here is your chance! bit.ly/TkaDdT #video
— Solar Impulse (@solarimpulse) November 23, 2012
“How to support Solar Impulse’s values?...”
It was in response to growing public interest that we created the Supporters Program. It allows anyone to demonstrate his attachment to the project and its values, in particular the pioneering spirit, innovation, and the promotion of technologies aimed at energy saving, adoption of renewable energies and improved respect for the environment.
Do you think that the pioneer spirit can improve the world? Are you concerned about the future of our planet? Do you think that our society should turn to renewable energies?
If you share these ideals, join the circle of Solar Impulse supporters and, with us, become an Ambassador for a world that is not dependent on fossil energy!
By becoming a Supporter you will discover what Solar Impulse is about from the inside, your voice will contribute to the project, and you will be part of an epic adventure!
Let’s take off together!
You will receive news directly and will be the first to be informed of how the project is developing. All that is free – you just have to register!
Every year a new project phase, every year a new badge! A special privilege for Adventurers – you will be able to the complete collection of badges for collectors by subscribing to the program each year. These embroidered badges, 9.5 cm in diameter, are reserved exclusively for members of the team, and for official supporters of Solar Impulse. In addition, you will receive news directly and be the first to be informed of how the project is developing.
Choose your very own solar cell amongst the 10,748 on the wing surface, or offer one to your family and friends. Why not choose the one next those belonging to Yann Arthus Bertrand, Al Gore or Paul Coelho, or another patron of the project? Personalize it with your name, your photo, the flag of your country and a personal message. In addition you will receive your collector’s badge, reserved exclusively for members of the team and for official supporters of Solar Impulse, and you will receive priority news about how the project is developing, trials and flight missions.
Visit the Solar Impulse base, meet the pilots and inspect this revolutionary airplane. Choose the date that suits you best amongst those that are offered, and make an unforgettable VIP visit. You can also offer this visit to your family and friends or, for companies, to your clients. In addition, you will be the owner of a solar cell reserved in your name, and will receive your collector’s badge, reserved exclusively for members of the team and for official supporters of Solar Impulse. You will also receive priority news up-dates about how the project is developing, trials and flight missions.
Your name will feature prominently on the aircraft’s fuselage and take off with the pilots. During a VIP visit you will be able to see the solar airplane close up and discover what the adventure is all about from the inside. You will have the privilege of visiting Solar Impulse’s base and take-off area. In addition, you will be the owner of a solar cell reserved in your name, and will receive your collector’s badge, reserved exclusively for members of the team and for official supporters of Solar Impulse. You will also receive priority news up-dates about how the project is developing, trials and flight missions.
If you would like to give even more support to the project, other options are available to you in the Angels Program.
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We’ve got some wonderful news in store for you! If you’re not living in California but want experience some of the first Across America events, a live streaming of an educational conference is going to take place next week open to all those that are interested, on Friday April 19th at ...
We’ve got some wonderful news in store for you! If you’re not living in California but want experience some of the first Across America events, a live streaming of an educational conference is going to take place next week open to all those that are interested, on Friday April 19th at 09:00am PDT (UTC-8), with the presence of Solar Impulse’s Co-Founders and Pilots.
And for those you that live in the Bay Area: we were able to organize the open house on April 20th of HB-SIA directly at the impressive Moffett Airfield hangar! Don’t miss this chance! Bring your friends and family to see this flying laboratory with their own eyes!
For these two abovementioned events you will find all the information you need here below:
Live streaming of Stanford University’s Panel Events & Discussions with Solar Impulse’s Founders and Pilots!
Save the date: Friday April 19th
Where: Directly from your personal computer!
What: Stanford University Panel Events & Discussions
How: Let's meet online on our website. You will find a direct link on our homepage at 09:00am PDT (UTC-8)
Open House: Come See the Solar Airplane with your Own Eyes!
Save the date: Saturday April 20th
Where: Moffett Airfield at NASA’s Ames Research Center
What: Public visits of Solar Impulse’s HB-SIA solar airplane
How? Just click here and sign-in for a time slot – but beware, spaces are limited for security reasons and only registered people will be able to access the premises.
Ever thought of expressing your support of #solarimpulse in a #creative way? Here is your chance! bit.ly/TkaDdT #video
— Solar Impulse (@solarimpulse) November 23, 2012
Special December offer for the Supporters Program
Are you a fan of Solar Impulse? Have you ever wondered how you could become more involved without having to send in your CV? The answer is: become a Supporter! There are different options through the Solar Impulse Foundation ...
Are you a fan of Solar Impulse? Have you ever wondered how you could become more involved without having to send in your CV? The answer is: become a Supporter! There are different options through the Solar Impulse Foundation and if you decide to make the step, sign-up for the adventure and be a part of our journey! Become part of the team! Furthermore, exceptionally for the month of December, you will get a free item (while stocks last) for each subscription besides the perk already linked to categories!
Contagiousness of a good idea
Investing in renewable energies is contagious, or at least what’s happening to the schools in the Maldives make it seem so. Solar Impulse has been in touch with Mr. Odon Sanchez, a young passionate physics and math teacher from Billabong High International School Maldives, since 2011. It all started thanks to his interest ...
Investing in renewable energies is contagious, or at least what’s happening to the schools in the Maldives make it seem so. Solar Impulse has been in touch with Mr. Odon Sanchez, a young passionate physics and math teacher from Billabong High International School Maldives, since 2011. It all started thanks to his interest in the Solar Impulse project and his desire to educate his students about renewable energy and solar power was obviously a success, as you’ll read below.
He introduced the project to the students and they all agreed to raise $10 each to personalize a solar cell on HB-SIA's wings and donate to the Solar Impulse project, an option through Solar Impulse's Supporters Program. Eighteen of them decided to volunteer (seventeen from grade 10 and one from grade 9) and André and Bertrand sent a letter of encouragement to the class thanking them for their enthusiasm and inciting them to motivate others to be pioneers like themselves.
Once all the money was collected and the school was ready to purchase solar cell n° 731, Solar Impulse decided to offer it as a gift to the motivated youth so that they would use the collected money to invest in some local renewable energy projects. Mr. Sanchez got together with the students and they all agreed to try and install solar panels on their school’s roof.
On July 6, 2012, Billabong High International School and Wirsol Renewable Energy Maldives signed an agreement to install 100 kW of solar panels, becoming the first school in the Maldives where over half of the energy consumption will be from solar power. The panels will be installed this autumn.
What is most incredible is that these youth’s pioneering spirit truly is contagious: four other schools have also contacted Wirsol Renewable Energy Maldives to install panels on their roofs as well. We’re all excited about this project and eager to see the photos of the brand new photovoltaic panels shining on Billabong’s Maldivian roof!
Good job to all the students and to their inspiring professor!
(Signing of the agreement between the school and Wirsol Renewable Energy Maldives. From left to right: Stefan Riel of Wirsol, Ibrahim Nashid of Renewable Energy Maldives and Odon Sanchez, professor at Billabong High International School Maldives).
The new badge has arrived!
To honor the 2012 Crossing Frontiers mission flight, Solar Impulse has prepared this year’s new collector’s badge! By popular demand, Solar Impulse setup the Supporters Program to allow everybody interested in the project to get the latest news and be part of the adventure.
Solar Impulse launched the Supporters ...
To honor the 2012 Crossing Frontiers mission flight, Solar Impulse has prepared this year’s new collector’s badge! By popular demand, Solar Impulse setup the Supporters Program to allow everybody interested in the project to get the latest news and be part of the adventure.
Solar Impulse launched the Supporters Program in 2009 and, with it, began distributing official mission badges to all those that upgrade to the Adventurer status every year. The 2012 Crossing Frontiers badge is the fourth badge of the collection and, if you want to become a collector, don’t waste any more time and sign-up for the Adventurer status! For only 40 Euros or 50 Swiss Francs a year, start you exclusive collection of Solar Impulse’s Mission flights badge!
It’s very simple to join the challenge: simply follow this link and click on the Adventurer category and fill in your personal details. And don’t forget, it’s the Solar Impulse HB-SIA’s first intercontinental, so what better to remember the mission’s “Best Of’s” than by having your own badge?
