"Pyramid 3" managed to climb up the mountain at the Technion

The original vehicle won first place in the annual "Technorush" competition in memory of the late Niv-Ya Durban

"Pyramid 3" of the student Nimrod Rotem managed to climb up the mountain at the Technion on his own. The original vehicle, which operates on the "bungee" principle, awarded its inventor the first prize of ten thousand shekels in the annual "Technorush" competition, in memory of the late Capt. Niv-Ya Durban, a graduate of the Technion and an outstanding officer in the Air Force, who was brutally murdered By a robber on a quiet street in Tel Aviv, Niv-Ya conceived and initiated the "Technorush" program at the Technion.

The "Technorush" competition is an engineering-creative competition. In each competition, a new engineering challenge is presented to the competitors. The solutions are tested by a team of scientists and engineers according to clear engineering metrics.

This year the competitors presented the "Dashtrack", an original vehicle built by them. His mission was to go down the slopes of the Technion and then come back up on his own, while overcoming space limitations and technical and energetic constraints.

"Pyramid 3" was composed of large wheels and a long rubber. It uses height potential energy that was stored in the rubber during the descent from the mountain and turned into elastic potential energy when going up the mountain.

Nimrod built "Pyramid 3" for four days and nights. He is currently in his fourth year of study at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion. He already has his own company, with three employees, that advises start-up companies. His father, an engineer at "Intel", is now doing a master's degree at the Technion and his mother is a doctor of nursing. "I hope to build bigger and more efficient green machines in the future," Nimrod said upon receiving the award.