Iași, 10th of May 2014. The eighth edition of the Student Technical Competition, organized at the Continental facility in Iaşi gathered this year over 100 future engineers, students of technical faculties. The event, organized on the 9th and 10th of May, was dedicated to all students of technical profile faculties, who wished to test their knowledge and respond to an interesting technical challenge, which can be their starting point for building a successful career in the field. Continental offered prizes of a total amount of 2700 euro: Ist place - 1100 euro, IInd place – 800 euro, IIIrd place - 500 euro as well as the special "Electro-mobility Online" prize amounting to 300 euro. This was granted to the team that managed the best sustained self-promotion and promotion of the Electro-mobility 3 student competition.

The senior challenge, for students who passed the first year of studies, was launched in October 2013, when students of technical faculties in Iaşi, Suceava, Bacău, Galaţi and Chişinău were proposed a new thinking topic under the name "Electro - Mobility 3 – Humans and Machines". After the review of proposed projects, 30 teams, were accepted, out of which 20 were from the Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, one team from the Grigore T. Popa Medicine and Pharmacy University of Iași, 2 teams from the Technical University of Moldova from Chișinău, 4 teams from the Ştefan cel Mare Technical University of Suceava and one team from the Dunărea de Jos University of Galaţi. Continental financially supported 25 of the qualified teams with the total amount of 5000 euro.

This year, the junior edition, for students in year I, reached its second edition, and the challenged consisted in providing a technical solution for the development of an electronic circuit according to given specifications.

“Over 60 of the winners of previous editions became our colleagues and this gives us joy and confidence that this project continues to gather once a year the technical talents of the region. Our expectations were at the corresponding level: they worked as teams, shared their knowledge and finally, were happy to see their cars reach the finish line.” stated Marius Lupu, manager of the Continental facility in Iași.

Winning teams:
Ist place – team no. 13 in the contest - DINO - Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iași, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, with team members: Barcan Roxana-Adriana, Potoc Teodora-Simona, Timofte Alexandru-Iulian, coordinating teacher Dobrea Dan Marius
IInd place - team no. 6 - BIT Storm - Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iași, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, with team members: Azoiței Vlad, Ilieș Florin-Daniel, Răzlog Beatrice-Nocoleta, coordinating teacher Aghion Cristian
IIIrd place – team no. 21 - MicroByte - Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with team members – Boca Alexandru, Pănuță Roman, Bulceag Sorin-Simion, coordinating teacher Larionescu Bogdan Alexandru
The special ElectroMobility online prize was won by team no. 31, Xplorers from the Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with team members Senocico Stelian, Cenușă Mihai-Marian and Sofronia Ciprian, coordinating teacher Potorac Alin Dan. ”We are very happy to have won this edition of the student competition. Throughout the development of the project we have worked hard, learned a great deal and finally collected the fruit of our labour. This experience will greatly help us in the future.”

Winners of Electro-Mobility Junior:
Ist place – Power source - Iştoc Florin-Bogdan - Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology
IInd place – Drilling machine - Măciuca Iulian - Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers
IIIrd place – Multimeter - Mihalache Bogdan - Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology

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