// image — the team at ERC
People ask why a student laboratory spends a year building toward one week in Poland. The honest answer is that the competition is the only deadline that cannot move.
a real deadline
A university project can always slip a semester. A competition date cannot. That constraint is what turns a set of promising subsystems into an integrated vehicle that has to drive, grip and navigate on a specific morning.
The rover either drives on the day, or it does not. Nothing else counts.
and a room full of peers
ERC also puts the work in front of teams solving the same problems with different answers. A week of that is worth a term of reading, and it is where most of our best ideas for the next cycle come from.
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