Private user   •   about 1 year ago

Plagiarism in Project Sunflower

A tutorial with a nearly identical design can be found on YouTube.
Project Sunflower demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99CjIT6lgU
Tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC4kIGQYld4

I'm disappointed that this project, which won a prize in three categories, was plagiarized. This team took recognition and hundreds of dollars in prizes from other teams that spent a substantial amount of time and effort building and designing original projects. The judges should have been suspicious about this project anyway, because rotating solar panels have existed for decades: https://www.utilitydive.com/spons/following-the-sun-a-brief-history-of-solar-trackers/431189/