The team was led by Mgr. Radovan Vik of the mentioned company. The team members were selected from the Dukelská Primary School and the neighbouring Secondary School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Eliška Svobodová, Daniel Neubauer and Alexander Hess from the primary school and Robin Franěk, David Pražák and Jan Semerád from the secondary school. The competition was held as part of the Education and Craft exhibition at the České Budějovice Exhibition Centre.

The aim of the competition was to assemble a previously unknown device from the Merkur kit in a given time and to breathe life into this device, all within the time constraint of three hours. The heart of the device, the BBC Micro:bit, was to be programmed by high school students. The efforts of the 12 teams from the Czech Republic and Bavaria were evaluated by a committee that continuously monitored the growing machines on workbenches, with the main evaluation criteria being the cooperation of the entire team and the accuracy of building the ropeway model according to the instructions.

The conclusions of the evaluation committee in the form of announcing the ranking of individual teams took place in the neighbouring pavilion as part of the main accompanying programme of the exhibition. The three teams from Bavaria were evaluated separately and each team, whether from the Czech or German side of the border, was rewarded with applause from the audience, recognition from the other teams and material prizes.

Returning specifically to the EGE team, the first cries of joy were associated with the announcement of ninth place: "Yay, it's not us!!!" J. The enthusiasm, shouts of joy, hands in the air and ear-to-ear smiles of the entire team under competition number three lasted until the podium was announced! Finally, the announcement was made. Team EGE is back on the podium again after finishing fourth last year! Thanks to all of you!

We would like to thank EGE both for their cooperation and for their financial contribution, which enabled us to purchase a total of 20 BBC Micro:bit units for the school, which we will continue to use in our teaching.

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