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The International Championships was held in London from 14 to 17 September 2009.
Twenty countries, thirty one teams and 145 learners participated in the 5th World Championships. Continue Reading »
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.
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 »
As Zeallous on its own is just a brand name we’ve decided to make this site the home of Zeallous Racing. All content are therefore about Zeallous Racing. New sections such as Team Zeallous and Projects have been added to give visitors more information than the previous one page section.
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On Friday the 22nd of August, Stellenbosch High School hosted its annual Golf Day. Zeallous Racing together with their F1 in Schools team, Team Zeallous had the opportunity to set up a display at the tee of the 7th hole. 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.
On Wednesday 20 August, Zeallous Racing went to Westcliff High School to help them with Solid Edge. Unfortunately the computers they work with can only run Solid Edge V11 while V20 is already out. Despite the limitation they quickly learned the basics and within an hour they started experimenting with their own ideas. We hope to see a competitive F1 team within the next year.
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.
