After weeks of debate, voting, and bickering, we have finally chosen a proper name for the CUER 2009 WSC entry: ENDEAVOUR

It has a brilliant background and history, as follows:

The original HMS Bark Endeavour was the ship in which James Cook
travelled on a journey of scientific exploration to Terra Australis
Incognita.
 
Endeavour is the callsign of the Apollo 15 mission, which carried the
first lunar rover to the moon and indeed was the first moon mission to
focus properly on scientific experiments rather than simply exploring.
 
The Space Shuttle Endeavour was constructed in 1987 to replace the
Challenger, making it about the same age as we all are. Its launch was
delayed last week, so it seems that, appropriately, things called
Endeavour tend to be behind schedule. Woop.
 
The Endeavour was the name of a solar research ship in Rendezvous with
Rama by Arthur C Clarke, and also appeared in Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World’s End, for some more modern pop-culturey
references. I would suggest that we go ahead and call the car the
Black Pearl, but quite frankly I’m tired of name votes. 

The Australian Endeavour Awards are a series of scholarships that
allow students from overseas to travel to Australia to carry out long
term scientific study. I suppose that’s a bit of a link to
internationality…being from Britain…etc.
 
HOWEVER. The thing that finally swung it was a dream I had a while
back, which some of you may remember, about solar-powered boats taking
over the world. Now it just so happens that there IS a company in
Florida that produces electric – though not yet solar – boats, based
in a marina that looks remarkably similar to the one in my dream. And the name of that company is………Endeavour.

Oh yes.

- Lucy