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Standing near a 2016-era Badgerloop Pod, Chancellor Rebecca Blank visits with members of the College of Engineering's Badgerloop team at the Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Aug. 16, 2017. The group is preparing to depart for and compete with their 2017-era Badgerloop Pod II -- already in shipping transit -- in the international SpaceX Hyperloop Competition II Aug. 25-27, 2017, in California. A hyperloop involves a pod moving in a low-pressure tube at hundreds of miles per hour. The sole criteria for the 2017 SpaceX competition is speed. (Photo by Jeff Miller / UW-Madison)