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Illusion and desire to continue learning.
The Greenpower Cartagena, a regional competition organized by the School of Industrialists of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, fascinates more than a hundred students of institute and Vocational Training of educational centers in the Region and beyond, such as the Valencian Community or the Basque Country.
120 students have participated in the School of Industrialists in the Workshop and Training Day Greenpower Region of Murcia 2019 through which they have shown their competition vehicles and have received instructions from teachers of the School to improve their prototypes for the first race of the competition that will be at the end of November in the Circuit of Cartagena.
"This is a new stage that they are offering us. Until now we had only tried combustion engines and now we have the possibility to enjoy a new experience creating a prototype electric car," says Christian Guerrero, of the Polytechnic IES, who has come with the rest of his teammates on the day hoping to know the good practices of manufacturing and assembly of vehicles to "win" in the competition.
In addition, he affirms that in the future he would like to study Industrial Engineering, so "participating in this project is another reason to learn" about the subject.
Christian's same passion for Engineering is shared by Adam Sovissi, from IES Miguel de Cervantes, from Murcia, who explains that in order to bring the prototype mounted to the UPCT, his classmates and he have had to dedicate many breaks to "finish it on time" .
"It has been a bit of sacrifice, but I hope we do very well in the competition," admits the young man who says he loves both technology and cars.
For his part, Francisco Javier Hernández, Professor of Technology of the IES Archbishop Lozano de Jumilla attended the conference to "take note" in the hope that his students can participate in the next edition.
"I am taking ideas, we are very excited and the students feel like it, but we lack the economic part," he said while acknowledging the usefulness of this type of initiative because it combines "many issues related to science preparing future technicians and engineers" .
The objective of this competition is to promote academic qualifications in the field of STEM, the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and in particular for those related to industrial engineering, through technical tests and circuit careers with prototypes of competition cars developed by the participating teams made up of students from pre-university educational levels and university students.
It is a competition that allows primary and secondary schools to have a training project through which children and young people can more easily understand the subjects they take in class, strengthen the content of these subjects and develop their skills of teamwork, creativity, leadership capacity, critical reasoning and resolution of real technical problems », comments the director of the ETSII.
The prototypes of cars to develop for the Greenpower competition have a motorization that allows speeds of up to 70 km / h;
however, for safety reasons in the Formula Goblin category the vehicle is regulated for a maximum speed of 15 or 20 km / h, and in category F24 it is usually limited to maximum speeds of 30 or 40 km / h to optimize the duration of the batteries during the race.
In this competition 8 participating teams participate, from the IES Miguel de Cervantes (Murcia), IES Los Molinos (Cartagena), IES Mediterráneo (Cartagena), IES Politécnico (Cartagena), IES María Cegarra Salcedo (La Unión) and College Santa María de la Paz (Murcia), as well as the Official College of Industrial Engineers of the Region of Murcia (COIIRM) and Official College of Industrial Engineers of the Region of Murcia (COITIRM).
The UPCT Racing Team will supervise the prototypes assembled by the institutes
Numerous members of the UPCT Racing Team, in which thirty students from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena participate, have attended today the technical training day of the teams of the Region of Murcia that are developing car prototypes for the engineering competition Greenpower.
"We have assembled the prototype of the School of Industrialists and we will supervise those who assemble the participating teams to verify the reliability of brakes and steering, for example, and guarantee the safety of the students," explained Constantino del Toro, 'team leader' of the UPCT Racing Team.
Students and professors of the IES Miguel de Cervantes de Murcia and the IES Polytechnic of Cartagena have taken advantage of the day to consult numerous technical questions about the test, for which they have to optimize multiple parts of the vehicle, from the wheels to the rear-view mirrors, passing through the design of the chassis and the choice of materials.
"It's the cane. Fully hooks the kids," said one of the tutors.
To guide the teams, the Vice President of Greenpower Iberia, Paul Riley, attended UPCT, who will accompany a Bilbao team to an international competition at Silverstone next week.
"Murcia teams can reach that level in a few years," he said.
Source: UPCT
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