Students from Helena School attended Wednesday's event at Knistad Gerrard. They represent the future and were there to join Camilla Rickstrand's and Erik Lundgren's lecture series Skaraborg's Sessions. They got to mingle with many heavy names in the business.
Jacob Backhaus, Mathilda Hansson, Ella Regstorp, Noah Törnqvist, and Tilda Hellgren all attend the Helena School's advanced education in mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry.
In their spare time, they have competed as Team Dahlénium and been successful.
"We participate in the world's largest innovation and technology competition for young people," the students explain.
They competed for the first time in 2016 when they came second in the qualifiers. In 2017 they won the qualification and went on to the Scandinavian final in Oslo.
That went well and we will represent Sweden in Hungary in a kind of final where 50 countries and 70 teams participated.
Each year there is a new theme and last year was the theme "Problems that can arise between humans and animals" when the students made a reflective tape for cows.
It was after 40 cows had died in connection with a traffic accident outside Hjo and a fire truck drove straight into a cowherd. The driver of the fire truck had been blinded by an oncoming vehicle and the cows did not appear in the dark.
This was an easy solution to the problem since it is easy to attach to the animal's necklace.
One of the elements of the competition was to build an armored robot, it was programmed to solve various missions on a track under time pressure.
It has been crowned one of Sweden's best lego robots, says Jacob Backhaus.
