Nuna victoryTU Delft’s solar car Nuna 3 won the World Solar Challenge in Australia for the third time in a row. The 11-member Delft student team beat the second place Australian team Aurora by more than 3 hours.
The race began in Darwin and finished four days and 3,000km later in Adelaide. The Nuna 3 car’s winning time was 29 hours and 11 minutes. A special ceremony to honor the Nuna team will be held in Delft on 19 October.
Career politician
Dutch Under-secretary of Education Mark Rutte is “a cynic and career politician who doesn’t really care about what he does or where he is, as long as his own political party supports him,” said Jo Ritzen, the head of the University of Maastricht’s Executive Board and former Dutch Minister of Education, in an interview with the magazine, ‘Schooljournaal’. “He really says all the wrong things,” Ritzen complained. “We, the university executive board members and professors, absolutely do not feel that this man supports us!”
Bonus
29 mathematic students from TU Delft and the University of Leiden each received a 750 euro bonus for passing their first-year exams (‘propedeuse’). They received this so-called ‘beta-grant’ because they passed the first-year exam last year in one try. These bonus grants were funded by the Beta Technology platform, which aims to improve the academic progression of students in technological degree programs. Students from the class of 2003 who complete their BSc degrees in mathematics in four years will also receive 750 euro.
Nuna victory
TU Delft’s solar car Nuna 3 won the World Solar Challenge in Australia for the third time in a row. The 11-member Delft student team beat the second place Australian team Aurora by more than 3 hours. The race began in Darwin and finished four days and 3,000km later in Adelaide. The Nuna 3 car’s winning time was 29 hours and 11 minutes. A special ceremony to honor the Nuna team will be held in Delft on 19 October.
Career politician
Dutch Under-secretary of Education Mark Rutte is “a cynic and career politician who doesn’t really care about what he does or where he is, as long as his own political party supports him,” said Jo Ritzen, the head of the University of Maastricht’s Executive Board and former Dutch Minister of Education, in an interview with the magazine, ‘Schooljournaal’. “He really says all the wrong things,” Ritzen complained. “We, the university executive board members and professors, absolutely do not feel that this man supports us!”
Bonus
29 mathematic students from TU Delft and the University of Leiden each received a 750 euro bonus for passing their first-year exams (‘propedeuse’). They received this so-called ‘beta-grant’ because they passed the first-year exam last year in one try. These bonus grants were funded by the Beta Technology platform, which aims to improve the academic progression of students in technological degree programs. Students from the class of 2003 who complete their BSc degrees in mathematics in four years will also receive 750 euro.
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