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October 1, 2012 by BK

Pedal4Innovation Design Contest Has Started

SILICA Pedal4Innovation Board CataloguePedal4Innovation (P4I) is back. Now it is time to give the floor to the young, brilliant and motivated future electronic engineers in the UK. This stage is all about you showing us the skills you have amassed throughout you studying electronic engineering. And the prize is in the form of three scholarships, each worth £3000.

SILICA and its partners have gathered a pretty large mass of design boards for this contest. Participants are asked to visit www.silica.com/pedal4innovation, read the contest’s rules of engagement and download the Board Catalog.  All the boards we have to give are described there, so it should be easy for you to figure out which boards you will need to work with. Please keep in mind the following, though:

  • Choose only up to 3 development boards.
  • The boards are with a limited amount available. So, we will be sending them out on a first-come-first-serve basis.
  • Be sure to be mentioning the name of the boards you choose as it is cited in the P4I board catalog.

Registrations will be accepted between today October 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012. Designs can be submitted until March 31, 2013. And the winners will be announced in mid April, 2013.

For those that have questions we have created a Q&A section in our Designers’ Community. Feel free to post there or to browse through many of the posts in other categories.

News and updates on the contest will be shared in real time at our Twitter and Facebook channels, so do connect!

Last but not least, Good Luck to everyone and we very much look forward to see your submissions!

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June 1, 2012 by BK

On Your Donations

Do you remember Laurence and Pete mentioning in their initial video they were aiming at raising 40,000EUR for charity and scholarships?…

Well, Pedal4Innovation did better than that. The the raised funds are almost 45,000EUR or 36,000GBP. The numbers are a bit “give-or-take”, mainly because funds were raised in both currencies. Besides, with the Euro nowadays the exchange rate is a bit tricky.

 

We changed our targets a few times. The response was so great that we continuously tried to increase the bar and aim for more.

Here is the breakdown by all three directions we initially set foot to take:

The truth is that the JustGiving donation pages will remain active online for a while. It seems there are still people willing to make a donation. Wonderful, isn’t it?

Pedal4Innovation’s team would like to express their gratitude towards every person, colleague, organization, family, friend and person making a donation, supporting and helping us! Without you, Pedal4Innovation would have been just a personal cycling challenge. Now, it is a statement of compassion and care! THANK YOU!

THANK YOU also for all the wonderful encouragements you posted on our JustGiving pages, Facebook and Twitter! All these amazing and supportive emails, phone calls and messages – THANK YOU for them as well!

SPECIAL THANKS go to each and every one of our industry partners – the guys that showed yet again that innovation is something we should all aim at and having a big heart can fuel one’s tank and take him/her a long way!

Here is to Pam, Lee, Andy and James – THANK YOU, lady and gents! You are rock stars!

And, last but not least, a gigantic THANK YOU to Laurence, Pete, Kev, Nige, Sam, Malcolm, Martyn, Anthony and Beky! You are fabulous and inspiring Jedi cyclists!

Pedal4Innovation continues with phase two – the Student Contest! Stay tuned on Twitter, Facebook and this website!

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May 28, 2012 by BK

On Day Five

We knew all along that Day 5 was the last one on our Pedal4Innovation cycling part. But some how we didn’t want to leave it at that. We just had so much fun…

We started off at our Avnet Aylesbury office where everyone made everything possible to see us off in great mood and feeling appreciated. It was terrific! Thank you, Avnet Aylesbury!

There we were also joined by Will and Paul from Microchip, who pedaled the whole way to the final at Avnet House Stevenage later that day! Thank you, Will & Paul! Thank you, Microchip!

Then we head of to our partners at Neesham to pick up the only lady in the team – Beky Cann (Neesham’s Account Director). Neesham has been instrumental in spreading the word out that there is Pedal4Innovation and we cycle for charity and UK’s next generation of electronic engineers.  Thank you, Neesham! Thank you, Beky!

Our next stop was University of Hertfordshire where we introduced the idea behind Pedal4Innovation and the coming student competition. Pretty exciting, indeed! Thank you, Hertfodshire Uni!

Although we wanted to prolong the ned of our cycling challenge, we soon found ourselves at the finish line in Avnet House in Stevenage. And what a splendid welcome it was!!! Everyone was out in the sun! There were banner, clappers, people and smiles everywhere. Everyone made everything possible for the team to feel appreciated, supported and proud of. Oh, and there was a cake (among other delicious food, that is)! Anyways, the pictures we published in the previous post, speak loud enough. Thank you, Avnet Stevenage!!!

The team was tired, so just before the afternoon was over we headed to our home for a well deserved rest. But as it turns out, the cycling is not over and we are all pretty hyped on the idea to do it again.

What a day!

 

 

 

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