GUMPOOL – Technion TechnoBrain competition weighs anchor
This Wednesday (June 17) at 12:30, in the heart of the Technion campus, the Technion will host the “Gumpool 2015 race”
This year the race is being held in the spirit of “green energy”: elastic-band powered boats, built in advance by the competitors, will be required to travel a distance of eight meters, anchor by means of a magnet and fire a jet of water into a funnel from a distance of three meters – all this is in the shortest possible time.
In honor of the 13th annual competition, a special 72-square-meter pool is being built at the Technion. The 14 teams competing on Wednesday have advanced to the final round, from among the 46 teams that entered the competition. This year’s teams include: Technion students and alumni; high school students from Baka al-Garabiya and the team that won the race last year – 82-year-old Ishai Zimerman of Kibbutz Ein Harod and his son and son-in-law.
The winners of the race will be awarded prizes of NIS 10,000, NIS 5,000 and NIS 3,000.
The TechnoBrain competition is being held in memory of its conceiver and founder, the late Neev-ya Durban.
Neev-ya, a student and outstanding graduate of the Technion, was an IDF officer when he was murdered by a car thief on a quiet street in Tel Aviv on March 8th , 2003.
The competition and the prizes are sponsored by Dr. Robert Shillman (whom everyone knows as Dr. Bob), who participated in graduate courses at the Technion.