When thinking about where to place your lamp think about the Sun. What angle would the Sun be at for your solar cooker to work best?
We encourage teams to have their lamp positioned at an angle where that Sun rays penetrate because then the lamp is mimicking the Sun. However, we realize this was not explicit in the rules to being with, so lamps facing upwards are permitted even though the Sun does not come up from the ground. If your lamp is coming up from the ground, it still MUST be completely exposed to the outside air and cannot be enclosed (so it cannot be sitting on the ground, it must be raised). The lamps heat up very quickly and due to safety concerns the lamp must be exposed to the outside air.
