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Folks,
Some Formula Student Alumni and Baja Alumni from India putting together a meeting at RV College in Bangalore this weekend along with the organizing team of Formula Student India and Baja Student India. The aim of this event is to try and meet the students involved in Student Vehicle Design competitions and get some interaction going between the students and the alumni team that is working to put together Formula Student India and Baja Student India.
This event is open to all and if you satisfy any of these criterion below you should definitely attend
- If you are participating / have participated in any of the student vehicle design competition in India.
- If you have participated in the Delta Shootout this year
- If you are considering participating as a team in Formula Student India or Baja Student India
- If you are considering participating / are participating in any of the Baja or FSAE international competitions
- If you are an alumni who is enthusiastic to help us out in the effort to bring International Formula Student and Baja quality to India
Here is the more detailed event information
https://www.facebook.com/events/470036836429642/
We plan to have similar events in other cities in the future, teams for the south zone are highly encouraged to the make it to Bangalore on Sunday.
Attachment 238
A picture from the bangalore meet held on 30th March,2014 at RV College of Engineering.
IIT Madras to host the Chennai meet. Orion Racing is hosting the Mumbai meet on 19th april,2014.
Hello Soumya,
It was a great initiative of FSI team to organize an informal orientation .I heard it was informative and interactive .Definetly with the feedback received ,FSI organizing team will make it even better and have it in all states of India .
Great going and all the very best .
Regards
Arunraj
Member
Formula Student India
'Formula Student India 2015' Rulebook has been published.
http://formulastudent.in/resources/U...a_Rules_v1.pdf
Comments on your document:
You might want to set yourself a date there as transportation&destination might be required far in advance. Don't know how difficult it is to get your car from a to b in India but even the short distances in Europe require some planning in advance (e.g. boat tickets to the UK, takes a while if you want to move a truck with 'non specified parts').Quote:
The venue for the competition shall be announced shortly
On page 6:
The first exemption is a no-brainer, but the second one seems a bit arbitrary and somewhat unfair as it's about 850 euros/1000 dollars.Quote:
These entries will be invitation based only and exempt from Rules Quiz & Registration fees
Despite my comments, Looks good though! (except for some spelling errors but I'm not complaining ;))
Raftar Formula Racing, IIT Madras hosted the Chennai meet on Saturday. It was a fantastic initiative taken by FS India organizers and specifically Soumya, Mahek and Mudit for taking out time and reaching out to the students. Thank you guys, keep the momentum going and we can sure as hell take FS India to international standard.
It will be our pleasure to host you in future too :D
Eagerly waiting for the venue declaration and rules quiz.
-Rajat
Raftar Formula Racing
IIT Madras
according to rule A 4.2 it states " Teams which are formed with members from two or more Universities are treated as a single team. A student at any University making up the team may compete at any event where the team participates. The multiple Universities are in effect treated as one University and all eligibility requirements (one car per competition class, one registration slot, etc.) is enforced."
according to the same rule we can form a team of university by collecting students for colleges falling under the same university. according to this article we can merge universities too to form teams.
please look into the matter. quality of the vehicle will be highly improved by this step.
Similar topic was raised up in the Chennai meet as well. Indeed its a good idea! rules do not restrict universities from making alliances. If teams can negotiate terms amongst themselves I don't think organizers have any problem with that. GFR is one brilliant example of such an alliance.
On a broader perspective, Formula Student is an institution that helps students to gain experience of running an organization and not alone engineering. Taking decisions to make your organization stronger, which includes making alliance, is also part of that learning experience. So, I think your thoughts are completely inline with the motto of the competition.
All the best on your efforts to raise the quality of your organization, your car.
Also, its a good idea to address rules specific for FSI at rules@formulastudent.in . Don't take my word as official and clear whatever doubts you have there.
Working together has positive and negative aspects. Especially if you are trying to do "GFR India" (which means the universities are so far apart that the students see themselves only via Skype or comparable tools). Communication is key in FSAE. The team structure gets even more complicated. I would not recommend that for teams without experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by devak03
It is less known than GFR but AMZ Racing is also a team of several universities. Due to the fact there is only one Swiss team so far, we have had students from a lot of different universities: ETH Zurich, UAS Lucerne, UAS Biel/Bienne, University of St. Gallen, UAS Zurich, University of Zurich, UAS Winterthur to name a few :)
Even with short distances (Zurich - Lucerne (where all our electrical engineers are from) is about 45min to drive), it is difficult to get the whole team to one place and it leads to problems especially in the last design or manufacturing days.
We worked a lot in the last years to improve this situation and I think the whole team would gladly support Indian universities that are trying a similar structure, but for starters, I'd suggest keeping it simple.
Yes, you have more people if you put two universities under one roof but it does not necessarily lead to better cars.
Its good to know about FSI.
I would like to add to the already mentioned benefits of Formula Student India.
Sponsorship by local companies.
When approaching small companies for Sponsorship in Kind or Money, I very frequently got a question:
"Our market is India. How will sponsoring you in an International event help us ?"
Well of course, the publicity of team in Local Media is one way, which we replied. Some of them did show interest, but most of them were not interested. There is less awareness about FS in Indian Organisations.
With FSI, there will be more publicity in Public and the local companies. They would see for themselves, the event, the teams and most importantly the value of Formula Student.
I would be glad to visit the event. Hopefully as a Team Member (thats team to decide), or as a keen visitor!
Good Luck!
Ashir,
it is always difficult to get help from companies, you need to be persistent :)
For example, there are a lot of Swiss companies sponsoring our car that nobody outside Switzerland knows. Like "SR Technics" (they are maintaining the airplanes of "Swiss" airlines) or "EKZ" (the local energy supplier in Zurich). They also don't profit from competitions in Spain or the UK.
But, you as a team must provide the publicity in your local area. Newsletter, car shows, your homepage, articles for the sponsors or in the newspaper, show the car to apprentices of the sponsor, show runs, what ever.
There were more newspapers writing about our roll-out than about our historic victory in Silverstone. Simply, because we invited them to the roll-out. It's not about success, it's about promoting that you are doing something exciting and useful.
Hi,
On 19th April, 2014 the Mumbai leg of the seminar on 'Formula Student India' & 'BAJA Student India' will be held at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering. The seminar is to create awareness about FSI and BSI and to discuss new rules about the quiz and the events with college teams from the Western region.
Team Orion Racing, the FSAE team of KJ Somaiya College of Engineering & one of the Indian FSAE team with regular international participation is the host for this meet.
The organizers would like to hear in person from the students how they would like to see certain aspects of these events changed to make the events a better educational experience for the students.
Further details on Saturday's event can be found here - https://www.facebook.com/events/647476285322619/
Thanks JulianH!
This year we are able to get quite a few sponsors! The "persistence" does pay :) We still have to focus on our publicity in local area, to be particular, the mass media.
We have 51 registered teams for 'Formula Student India 2015'. Official entry list will be published tomorrow on www.formulastudent.in
Teams still have 9 days to register themselves and take part in the Rules Quiz on 25th May,2014. 32 teams to be selected via 'Rules Quiz'.
5 'seeded entry' spots are still available.