Congratulations to the 4 qualified teams during the event held at the Politecnico of Torino on 04-Feb-2014. We also had a team from the Agnelli Institute as first high school team (not competing for the qualification). Here are a few pictures taken during the event. The time log is in attachment.

The 2nd edition of the Russia Freescale Cup qualification was a great success with 12 teams in the boxes and 10 teams on the start line. I am happy to report that 4 universities will be joining us at the Freescale Cup EMEA finals with their respective teams: Odessa National Polytechnic University Wonder  Bolts Tomsk Polytechnic University Time Machine NovSU - Novgorod State University Machine Gun TUSUR - Tomsk State University for Control Systems and Radioelectronics Turbo Turtles The full results of the race is as follows: University Team Name Start Position Qualified Lap Odessa National Polytechnic University Wonder  Bolts 6 00:17.2 Tomsk Polytechnic University Time Machine 3 00:18.8 NovSU - Novgorod State University Machine Gun 8 00:19.4 TUSUR - Tomsk State University for Control Systems and Radioelectronics Turbo Turtles 9 00:21.7 TUSUR - Tomsk State University for Control Systems and Radioelectronics Photon 4 00:23.9 Tomsk State University FIT - Friendship 2 2 00:29.9 TUSUR - Tomsk State University for Control Systems and Radioelectronics Science 5 00:41.4 SFU - Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk ENISEI 7 00:46.4 Tomsk State University FIT - Friendship 1 1 - KemSU - State University Kemerovo Four 10 -

As introduced in Qualification Race Information: University of Zilina, students can accommodate at the dormitory for 10,- EUR per night. What is more important - if you are IEEE Student member, your accommodation here is for free! How to become IEEE Student member? It's very simple: visit IEEE web page, follow the "Join" button and "Join as a student". You will be asked to fill in some information and finally to pay the registration fee (for 2014 it's $27.00 per year). You will receive your own personal number and this will serve as an identification during the Freescale Cup accommodation registration. Why should you join? First of all, IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE has: more than 425,000 members in more than 160 countries, more than 50 percent of whom are from outside the United States; more than 116,000 Student members; 333 Sections in 10 geographic regions worldwide; 2,195 Chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests; 2,354 student branches at colleges and universities; 800 student branch chapters of IEEE technical societies; 428 affinity groups - IEEE Affinity Groups are non-technical sub-units of one or more Sections or a Council. The Affinity Group patent entities are the IEEE-USA Consultants' Network, Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering (WIE), and Life Members (LM). IEEE: has 38 Societies and 7 technical Councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests; has more than 3 million documents in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, with more than 8 million downloads each month; has more than 1,400 standards and projects under development; publishes more than 148 transactions, journals, and magazines; sponsors more than 1,300 conferences in 80 countries while: partnering with more than 1,000 non-IEEE entities globally; attracting more than 400,000 conference attendees; publishing more than 1,200 conference proceedings via IEEE Xplore. The official IEEE benefits page is available here. The "streetsmarts'" reasons: Two nights at the dormitory is for 20,- EUR, what is 27,- USD. If you are planning to stay for two nights, joining IEEE could be just beneficial You will get an access to the IEEE database (IEEE Xplore) with many scientific books and publications. With MSDNAA cooperation, you'll get many free licences for Microsoft development software and tools, operating systems, etc. IEEE, especially Czechoslovakia Section organizes many contests, conferences, events and scholarship programmes for IEEE members. If you are a member, you have an access to these activities. IEEE membership can be a valuable item in your CV. After five years in profession, you can get the IEEE Senior member grade, what is a great community recognition. The accommodation is sponsored by Joint Chapter IA03/IE013 - IEEE Czechoslovakia Section, www.ieee.uniza.sk, [email protected].

All, We had all a great time at the Freescale Cup EMEA Finals hosted by the Fraunhofer IIS. A selection of pictures is downloadable from the DropBox Videos can be seen on the Fraunhofer IIS YouTube Channel

LANDZO Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. is located in Anhui Province in China. We had participated in The Freescale Cup Worldwide Finals 2013 in HIT (Harbin Institute of Technology) and The Freescale Cup Worldwide Finals Seoul 2014 in Hanyang University. Each team did a good job in the competition and we appreciate their teamwork and efforts.

Congratulations to Haute Ecole ARC Ingénierie, ESEO Angers and ENSEEIHT Toulouse for their qualification to attend the Freescale Cup EMEA Finals. 10 teams from France and Switzerland did compete today in the 1st Freescale Cup Qualification challenge hosted by the ENSEEIHT in Toulouse (France). Only the top 4 teams get to go the next challenge level. Similar qualification events will be held across EMEA to select the best teams to attend the Freescale Cup EMEA finals that will be hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits on 29-30 April. Results on the track where Haute Ecole ARC Ingenierie: Team FollowerStarTwo: 24.7s ENSEEIHT: Team 7Robot: 28.5s Haute Ecole ARC Ingenierie: Team FollowerStar: 29.9s ESEO Angers: Team Triumvirat: 41s All other teams did get any time due to exiting the racetrack.

Hi, the TV report of "Bayerischer Rundfunk" (Bavarian television) is available online, too. It gives a general overview about the competition, live interviews from the event and focusses on team "Ohm" from "Nuremberg Institute of Technology Georg Simon Ohm": "Freescale Cup" Kleine Flitzer im Frauenhofer Institut ("Freescale Cup" Little Racers at Fraunhofer Institute) Have fun, Rolf

The EMEA Finale will take place at the NXP office in Munich! Date : 27 & 28th of April 2017 Address : Schatzbogen 7, 81829 Munich, Germany How to access? Ubahn line 2, station Moosfeld (then walk 10 min) Google map location : Google Maps More details to come soon

Some of you might know Conrad for RC models and a broad range of electronic components. Now you can buy your Freedom board from them across Europe. Check out their online catalogue at Schnellstart mit dem Freescale Freedom Board FRDM-KL25Z Conrad FRDM-KL25Z im Conrad Online Shop | 1208476 They have also created a small booklet to get you quick started on your preferred project. As a reminder, this board is the standard board for the Freescale Cup once you add the shield connectors to it.

Fraunhofer IIS has posted many videos on their YouTube channel covering the Freescale Cup EMEA 2014 event. Here are the links: Introducing the Freescale Cup at Fraunhofer IIS freescale cup 2014 HD Freescale Cup Opening Event Event Opening - Freescale Cup EMEA 2014 HD Freescale Cup Open Training Open Training - Freescale Cup EMEA 2014 HD Freescale Cup Technical Inspection Technical Inspection - Freescale Cup EMEA 2014 HD Finals and awards Finals and Award Ceremony - Freescale Cup EMEA 2014 HD

Here is a great deal of information for the teams participating into the Freescale Cup Qualification race hosted by TUSUR in Tomsk: Date of the race: 14-Mar-2014 Address: TUSUR 40 Lenin Prospekt Tomsk     Russia Recommended accommodation location: Hotel "Bon-Apart" Gertsena St. 1A 634029 Tomsk Russia "Бон Апарт" - гостиница в Томске :: Главная :: Лучшие гостиничные номера в Томске. Phone Info +7 (3822) 53-46-50 Phone Booking +7 (3822) 53-46-55 Email contact: [email protected] Agenda March 13th, 2014 Training period available 12:00 - 17:00 March 14th, 2014 9:00 - 10:00 Registrations 10:00 - 10:30 Opening ceremony 10:30 - 11:30 ARM University Program presentation 11:30 -14:00 Training period 14:00 - 14:30 Cars at technical inspection 14:30 - 16:00 Qualification race 16:00 - 17:00 Awards and Certificates Contact point at the University Prof. Evgeny Shandarov [email protected] Phone +7 (913) 8295087

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Find below the final agenda for the Freescale Cup Finals that will be held at the ESIEE in Paris 26-27 March 2013 Reminder: All cars have to be ready for inspection on March 27th at noon. Cars that are not ready for inspection at that time won't be allowed to participate in the final race. 26-Mar-13 Time Activity Location 8:00 - 10:00 Arrivals, race registration and Hotel Check-In Lobby of the University 10:00 - 10:30 Event Opening Amphitheater Marcel Dassault 10:45 - 13:00 Open Training Sport's Aula 13:00 - 13:45 Lunch Cafeteria Area 13:45 - 18:00 Open Training Sport's Aula 19:00 - 20:30 Dinner Cafeteria Area From 20:30 Activities and Departure for Hotel 22:00 Lobby of the University 27-Mar-13 Time Activity Location 7:30 Departure from Hotel 8:00 - 8:45 Keynote speaker Amphitheater Marcel Dassault 9:00 - 12:00 Open Training and Challenges Sport's Aula 13:00 - 13:45 Lunch Cafeteria Area 13:45 - 14:00 Preparation for the Finals Sport's Aula 14:00 - 15:00 Finals Sport's Aula 15:30 - 16:15 Awards Ceremony Amphitheater Marcel Dassault 16:15 - 16:30 Closing of the Event Amphitheater Marcel Dassault

Under cloudy skies, the 1st Freescale Cup Challenge for North Africa was held today at the University of Mundiapolis (Casablanca, Morocco). Students from Tunisia and Morocco came to get their 1st taste of this global competition. With a very energy-contagious and great camaraderie, students from ENSEM Casablanca, EHTP Casablanca, Mundiapolis Casablanca, ISSAT Sousse and ENIS Sfax have been challenged with the Freescale Cup competition track. I am happy to report that team EHTP Casablanca has qualified and will join us in Germany for the EMEA Finals.

Dear racing enthusiasts, the link below leads you to some video impressions from the training tracks for the Freescale Cup EMEA 2014 Finals at Fraunhofer in Erlangen from April 29-30: Freescale Cup EMEA 2014 Finals - Training Impressions Rolf

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On January 16th, 2014 we have receive the visit from students of the University of Applied Sciences of Landshut (Germany). They came under snowy skies to our Munich facility to test their Freescale Cup cars in preparation for the upcoming Germany Qualification event scheduled for 18Mar14. In a matter of a couple of hours they were able to improve the performance of their vehicles and leave with new ideas about how to improve them and make them go even faster. Here are a few pictures taken on that afternoon

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