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BEST Autumn Course 2009: Race with the wind!

BEST Autumn Course 2009: Race with the wind!

Madrid (Spain), 3th-10th October 2009

Were you a professional paper windmills maker when you were a child?

Did you enjoy blowing to the fins and make it spin very fast? Did you get hypnotized by its draft?

Are you a green-energy lover, friend of environment, and your favourite greek god is Eolo?! Do you feel yourself like a contemporary Quijote, and you are willing to fight giant mills, and learn a lot about them?

Are you interested in wind power, wind energy, wind force, wind turbines?

So, this is definitely the Engineering Competition you were looking for!! … Race with the wind!!!

Friendly team competition about the honorable pursuit of victory. Could that be better?! Yes, it can!

It will all be happening in the “winderfull” city of Madrid, one of the big centers of the world culture: museums (Prado, Reina Sofía, Thyssen...), Art Galleries, theatres, monuments, amazing skyline, fabulous sightseeing… under a lovely sky, a soft breeze and the splendid sun of Spain!

Enjoy the amazing places and corners where you can contemplate the most spectacular late afternoons: that brief and intense moment, already immortalized by Velázquez or Goya, beside tasting our culinary delights… and sangría; Find out the real meaning of FIESTA, meet great friends, enjoy 8 amazing days in the capital of Spain, and have the BEST time of your life.

Don’t think it any longer… Wind it up!!!

Apply now, and may the wind-force be with you!!!

Selection criteria for participants