In addition, Marine Intsruments delivers to each team belonging to some school a radio control command and a financial support valued at 100 €for ships and up to 250 €for cars

The technology innovation company, Marine Instruments, launched the fourth edition of the Solar Regata, an annual meeting to promote energy efficiency between schoolchildren and fans by building solar prototypes.

In addition, as a new proposal and in order to further develop new technologies and their dissemination to schoolchildren, Marine Instruments incorporates in this fourth call a competition of solar cars, with similar characteristics and conditions as the solar race, but putting wheels on the designs.

After the brilliant success of the first three calls, Marine Instruments extends the places to take part on June 22 in this meeting with the science in the village of Baiona, which awards in their respective categories the students of Secondary Education, Vocational Training and the already released Open class, in efficiency and design.

The requirements of the vessels and of the cars are governed by rules common to all the participants developed by Marine Instruments and that the only energy used will be the solar, generated by the official panel of 100 W for the boats and 50 W for the cars, not allowing the use of electric accumulators. Both the panel and the auxiliary batteries delivered by Marine Instruments will be the only valid materials.

The jury will be made up of responsible for different areas of Marine Instruments: Francisco Pino, Director of R & D; Bruno Lema, Head of the Hardware Area; and several Marine Instruments Hardware engineers.

The places chosen for both competitions will be the Playa de La Ribera, in the case of the boats, and a circuit riding on the basketball courts, for the radio control cars.

The association A Industriosa (www.aindustriosa.org), a space for the development of people and projects related to the technologies that is located on Barcelona Street, 13 in Vigo, collaborates with the race providing technical support to the participants who so wish.

The registration deadline shall end on 15 December. The positions are limited in all categories. All interested parties can review the basis of the competition and register at www.regatasolar.org