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National Champions!

The DENSO North America Foundation sponsors the University of Michigan Solar Car teams, which design and build cars powered only by sunlight to compete in cross-country races. U of M’s teams have taken five national championships in nine attempts. In 2008, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team was first to cross the finish line, 10 hours ahead of its nearest competitors, for the North American Solar Challenge after traveling nearly 2,400 miles from Plano, Texas, to Calgary, Alberta.

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Stuff-A-Bus

Did you know the average family spends about $80 per child on back-to-school supplies? That doesn’t include clothes, haircuts, physicals and all the other things students need to be ready for the school year. So, when DENSO International America (DIAM) heard about a local school district with more than 60 percent of families in need, they decided to help. For two weeks, DIAM employees collected school supplies. And on Aug. 17, they stuffed a bus with nearly 5,000 donated supplies, from backpacks and binders to calculators and colored pencils, for Southfield Public Schools.