KTH team scored full at Teknik-SM
After a nerve-racking final, our team from KTH won the game during this year´s “Teknik-SM” (the annual Technology Competition between Swedish students in engineering and technology), after both “Lego robots” from Chalmers och Linköping Tech University had flopped out in the decisive final driving round.
– Boy – this was scary up to the last minute, gasped Alexander Rufelt from KTH, as his team had just barely secured the victory.
Alex is an undergraduate student of Engineering Physics at KTH, just as his three team mates Håkan Terelius, Daniel Rufelt and Ulf Lindström are. Resistance was fierce from the Chalmers team in Gothenburg and also from Murphy´s Team at Linköping Tech; these three fought for victory in the final round at the old München Brewery in Stockholm on 10 May.
The finals were run as a public show, consisting of ten different events, such as picture puzzles, limericks and theoretical estimates – all of a technological or engineering nature. These were administered by KTH Physics Professor Göran Grimvall, who is also “Problem Designer” at the engineering weekly Ny Teknik.
The prestigious First Prize – a trip to the USA and the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – was handed to the KTH team by Swedish Minister of Education Lars Leijonborg.
This Teknik-SM event was run for the eighth year in a row. Its sponsors are Saab, Sandvik, Scania, Teknikföretagen (the employers´ organisation for major engineering companies) Sveriges ingenjörer (The Swedish Assn. of Graduate Engineers), Erik Johan Ljungberg Fund, IVA, Vinnova and Ny Teknik magazine.