Mirror, mirror, tell me, what's your resistance? It's not a fairy tale, but a question that the students in the second ŠKODA AERO CHALLENGE sought to answer. Their models of a car's rear-view mirror were put to the test by measurements in a wind tunnel. The FSInutí team was the best performing team, also in the tunnel measurement.

If you love technology, don't hesitate to spend Valentine's Day at school. For example, the members of the nine final teams of the ŠKODA AERO CHALLENGE competition, who came to present and, more importantly, test their competition mirror models on 14 February. One of them was the Vomi team, students of Vojtěch Nováček and Michal Zábojník. "I study Mechanical Engineering Fundamentals, Michal Mechatronics. Since the goal was to model a mirror with the least aerodynamic drag, we stretched our mirror very far forward and made the shape as sharp as possible to reduce the area that the wind will act on. At the same time, we tried to design the structural elements in such a way that when driving in the rain, the water would flow away from the mirror surface and would not obstruct the view," says Vojtěch Nováček, a student who, as he says, enjoys cars and would ideally like to focus on engines in the future. "But if I ended up somewhere where they make car bodies, I wouldn't be angry either," he adds with a smile.

There were nine similar teams of two or three in the competition finals. Their creations were first evaluated by a jury made up of representatives from the FSI and ŠKODA AUTO, which sponsors the competition. Half of the team's points could be awarded by the jury, the other half for the results of the wind tunnel measurements.

In the end, the winner was the FSInutí team, which dominated the wind tunnel measurement discipline, beating the last team in the competition by more than 100 points. The second place went to a team called Luraon technologies and the imaginary bronze went to Kolektiv ... HaDů. Congratulations!

Thanks to the sponsor of the competition