some of the doctors more
prestigious 19th century
warned of the dangers of using
the railroad in particular claimed that
overcome the barrier of 32 kilometers
per hour could be very harmful
to health
nowadays we know that we can travel
on 300 high-speed trains
kilometers per hour or even get to
the 600 kilometers per hour in the
Japanese levitation trains but
imagine that we go one step further
imagine a global network where we can
go from one country to another in a matter of
minutes
we could do for example a trip of
valencia madrid in just 20 minutes
or crossing europe from barcelona to berlin
in just an hour and a half
besides all this would be with energies
renewable and without long waits in the
airports
maybe some of you already know what
we are talking maybe you will know
also that this is not so far
it is already considered the fifth
Transport method
it’s about hair look but what about
behind this futuristic concept
really its functioning is not so
difficult
it’s about levitating the wagon to
avoid friction with the track and
also introduce it inside a tube
in which we have previously extracted
the air so you do not have to
push it continuously as it happens with the
rest of ground transportation seems
true madness is a technology
incredible but if I tell you that this is not
is the most incredible and if I tell you that
there are currently students from all over the
world developing this project
I know what you’re thinking some
you are thinking a thousand kilometers
hour
developed by students I did not there
I get even if they pay me but today
I’m here to defend the potential
of students doing great
things like this and also for
tell you how a small group of
students has managed to be
involved in a project of this
size
the one of the things that happens today
with education is that I like
explain in this way imagine that
you have a swimming competition
imagine that you do not know how to swim micron and
back and breasts nothing then had two
options
you can go to a pool and practice
first with the arms the feet
preparing for the competition or
you can stay at home reading books
about how nothing and watching some video
of the best swimmers in the world
how do you think it would be fine or would it be
better the competition after that
month if you choose to stay at home
reading books on how to swim
I hope there are good lifeguards in
your pool but really this is
what happens sometimes with the
students are preparing a lot
to swim but they are too far
of the pools
the good thing is that although this is a
problem that little by little it is true that
it is changing
during my career years since the
first up to this one that will be the last
minute does not account for certain things
that have made me change the way I see
how to take advantage of the university
the first thing that I noticed the
first year of the race is that we were
more capable than we thought many
times because of being students
we see a problem and we say uf and only
I’m a student like I’m going to do
this one of those who helped me see
this let’s say this jump you had to
give
was the man that you see here it’s about
bernal bag is not a philosopher and
mathematician of the 19th century and among others
things developed this theorem the
intermediate value problem
I do not know about you but the first time
I wanted this in my notes of
mathematics a book like that the world and
gesture I do not understand anything
this language this is new in fact from
that the subject quite aside and
until he arrived little by little time
towards the exam he did not catch it again
that’s when I started reading
I started to understand this language a bit
mathematician and I started to get interested in
true
in fact this theorem comes to say of
simplified form that if we have a
succession of numbers for example
let’s do from 1 to 10 and we want to go from
1 to 10 without skipping any number
at some point we will go through 58
this is much better understood but the
first you find something like that and
teas and this I will never understand
after getting to study I launched
to the exam and know what happened was
suspended because he had started
too late
but well I already realized that
we were capable of things that first
place we are not able to understand
another very important point is the moment
in which we are living is
fastened from my perspective in two
super important pillars the first one is
Access to information
nowadays we have a university
personalized in the palm of our
previous generations had
many difficulties to expand
your passions to find the book
ideal right now this is much more
easy and not only that but the
second pillar makes it even more
important
we have access to people we can
connect with people who have the same
passions that we and we can do
that our projects are at the same time their
projects and share our
knowledge
all this materialized does around
of four years when I met a
crazy group of the university that
they wanted to live engineering like me and
to live it in an applied way was
then when we found makers upv it
it’s about an association where we
we teach each other what we know
we prepare competitions workshops and little
We soon realized that the
association was growing with us and
small projects are going
turning into projects are more
big
this was also the best thing but
we had one for us a lot of
people who joined the proposal
the little ones that little group of
Crazy was not only made every time
larger
Today we have social networks
with around 2,000 followers and
we have about 200 associates that
they join their projects their ideas and
they share everything they know
no doubt it’s time
a few years ago we could not have done
something like that
then we already know that it is time
we know that we are capable that more
it takes
sometimes the hardest but really
the simplest thing is to give the
jump
neither related to the comparison
with swimming that we had
spoken previously
I do not know if it ever happened to you when
you are going to the pool that you play a
little fish wii
this is very cold I do not want to get
then you get and no longer want to leave it
this is something that can happen when
you are pushing these initiatives da
much fear initially then you give yourself
realize that it is your passion and it is what
you want to do and keep it going
ahead is what happened near a
about a year and a half when our
comrade dani read in the newspaper
that the technological visionary in hills
had opened a competition so that
students around the world and
help to build the fifth method of
transport they give it and it did not last a
second in he did not even think for a second
and ran to michael schubert ue to the forum
notify what was happening
to get a team that
will participate in the competition and
again he found a group of crazy people that
They decided to join the proposal
at the beginning we did not know very well what
do we are thinking how to focus
this was something that escaped us but
after talking to the university that we
he supported the proposal to bring
ahead
we had a meeting and a phrase appears
that accompany us has accompanied us in
every moment since then it’s about
a very powerful phrase that maybe now
you are imagining something like it does not exist
far too distant horizon fight for your
dreams and it really was something very
simple was a let’s try it
and so we did in fact to the jury at
jury the convention liked in this
first proposal and invited us to continue
participating
that’s when we started
develop our final design
Here is a small model of what
It was this final design
in this case it is about 20 times more
small of what the design would be
definitive and we are also looking for
volunteers to prove it so
after the talk if you want to be able
talk and something we should do well because
after evaluating our proposal
We were invited to go to Texas
United States to present it to the
jury of space ex inp is that of the
leading technology companies
right now
again we met and decided that
we do this is very big
we travel we do not travel and again the
university supported us to go to states
united to present our ideas
that’s when we were in a
historic event where all the
students of the good planet the
best universities on the planet
They came together to develop the new medium
of transportation and in fact it was very
well we won the two prizes to which
we present the best design
complete and the best system of
propulsion
it was something amazing when we went back to
Spain to Spain
they called us the media all over the world
is pending of us we do not
we had come to assimilate what
it had happened and we are very happy and
we are very happy about it
but this does not end here does around
of five or six months
we realized that we wanted
keep working on it and that
we needed more support because the
next phase is about building a
prototype to prove it
we launch a proposal without knowing very
well what was going to happen and we had more than
200 applications from the university of
students who wanted to join the project
and the most incredible
maybe more incredible that they say
won two awards is that currently
we are 30 people fighting to carry
out our design
I would also like to take advantage of
encourage students with passions and
dreams that are not within the
books to go for them also to
family mothers and fathers to teach them
sales are very important but
that you also have to follow your own
way and to educational institutions and
companies to collaborate so that these
students can demonstrate their
potential because certainly they are not going to
regret
we will continue developing
our transport proposal
we know it’s crazy to mix the
studies with the development of something so
big
but it’s time we know we are
capable and at least we will try
thank you very much
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