Team Leader’s Remarks

“ Imagination and Knowledge are keys to the door that is Motivation.

Vítor Teixeira

Yes it’s true, PSEM’s not only developing a couple of the most advanced vehicles in Greenpower, but is also working as a mentor to the younger generations. Obviously, we know that we’re in a competition for the top places of the table, but the objective is not to teach other teams how to build a competitive or winning car, or reveal secrets of our intellectual property. In fact, our goal is to give them the necessary theoretical and practical basis for them to develop their critical thinking and find out ways to improve the performance of their current vehicles and design better cars from scratch.

With friendly competition, open learning and knowledge sharing, the technological advances are far greater and faster. We’re all students and whatever our Greenpower status, there are always new/different things to learn.

Imagination and knowledge are two keys to the door that is motivation. And if we give young students the knowledge key, with their imagination and motivation they’ll be able to do anything, and they will surely be more committed to learn autonomously and will perform better at school.