The 20 university-led teams that design, build, and operate the competition's solar-powered houses are the heart of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Learn more about each of these teams competing in Solar Decathlon 2011: * Appalachian State University * Florida International University * Middlebury College * New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington * The Ohio State... moreThe 20 university-led teams that design, build, and operate the competition's solar-powered houses are the heart of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Learn more about each of these teams competing in Solar Decathlon 2011: * Appalachian State University * Florida International University * Middlebury College * New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington * The Ohio State University * Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology * Purdue University * The Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology * Team Belgium: Ghent University * Team Canada: University of Calgary * Team China: Tongji University * Team Florida: The University of South Florida, Florida State University, The University of Central Florida, and The University of Florida * Team Massachusetts: Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell * Team New Jersey: Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey and New Jersey Institute of Technology * Team New York: The City College of New York * Tidewater Virginia: Old Dominion University and Hampton University * University of Hawaii * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * University of Maryland * The University of Tennessee. view page