The Kansas Corporation Commission is host and one of the sponsors of the event. The challenge to learn about, build and race a solar bicycle has been met by nearly sixty high school teams from fourteen states, Canada and Japan. Although participants are primarily high school competitors, anyone may enter.
Admission is free and open to everyone.
For an hour and a half the competitors will drain their pedal and electric power. Throughout the school year Solar BikeRayce instructors present workshops on solar vehicles across the United States Teachers are invited to bring a student to a unique learning opportunity where teacher and student learn along side one another to build and race a solar bicycle. By the end of the two-day workshop, participants have actually built a working solar electric bike. In the past three years over a dozen entries from the SBR have gone on to compete in the World Solar BikeRayce in Akita, Japan. This is the third year the Kansas Corporation Commission has sponsored the Solar BikeRayce.