From left to right – Hugo Minnaar, Marisa Niemandt, MEC Donald Grant, Kyla Smit and Leonardo Maré.
The Ministry for Education in the Western Cape would like to extend its full support to the members of Team Zeallous from Stellenbosch High School who will be competing in the 2009 Formula One in Schools World Championships in England on the 15th of September 2009. Continue Reading »
On Friday, the 22nd of August, Zeallous Racing had its second big workshop. This year it was held at the Thornton Campus of the College of Cape Town. Willem Amoraal organized the whole thing for some of the new schools that he introduced to F1 in Schools.
On the 26th of January SAfm had an interview with Zeallous Racing Manager, Hugo Minnaar, about Zeallous. “I was doing a research on the internet and I came across this interesting initiative.” says Bongeka Zweni from SAfm. Continue Reading »
Hugo Minnaar, founder of Zeallous, just returned from Germany where he was an exchange student for 3 months. He left for Germany in October 2008. “It was the most amazing three months of my life” says Hugo. He didn’t just enjoy himself he also had lots of time to think about the future of Zeallous. “I see forward to another exciting year full of highlights, this year we will be serving the community more than ever.” Continue Reading »
During the past school holiday 4 members of Zeallous Racing (previous F1 in Schools participants from High School Stellenbosch) took part in the first ever South African Solar Challenge. Their main role was to be observers. This meant that they sat in the support vehicle behind the solar car and made note of everything that happened.
After a very successful competition hosted by College of Cape Town in co-operation with the Dept Industrial Engineering US, Team Zeallous achieved 2nd place, best car, best presentation and 2nd best team spirit. Continue Reading »
Hugo Minnaar, manager of Zeallous Racing, recently participated in the regional round of the Eskom Expo for Young Scientist. His Expo was about the engineering crisis in South Africa. It is a fact that there is way to few engineers in South Africa.
Johannes Jonker, brand ambassador for Hip2B2, did an interview with Hugo Minnaar regarding his company Zeallous for his Hip2B2 project.
Hugo, you recently founded the Zeallous Company. What exactly is the company’s philosophy and function?
That is correct. Zeallous on its own is a brand name. It stands for eco-friendly quality and promotes the sustainable use of resources. When one sees Zeallous it must reflect high quality and good clean fun without destroying our beautiful planet. Zeallous connects its name to different projects and companies which will operate according to the same values.
On Wednesday, 25 June 2008, the first of many workshops for start-up F1 in Schools teams was held. It was organised by Zeallous Racing, with the gracious help of the staff at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch. The event was held at the Mechanical Engineering department at the faculty’s buildings and teams and staff from as far as Kayalitsha attended.
