Even though the Columba Racing team was founded in 2016 the roots of our team are much deeper. We have been competing under the name of Team Talentum since 2011 in various international competitions such as RoboCup, First Lego League and many more. As the core members of Team Talentum started going to a new high school some new very talented students joined the ship and Columba Racing Team was created under the guidance of our teacher Mrs. Monika Molokáčová.

Due to the fact that our team started late, we decided to choose a slightly different attitude to our tasks and problems. We have only a small span of time for preparations, hence our strategy consists of focusing on specific fields more than on the others, which we decided not to resolve completely. First we pored through the rules and regulations to find out what are the most important fields of the competition. When we built up our team, chose our name and decided for functions of each team member, our primary objective was to distribute tasks across all of us, determine plan and define schedule for the future. During our meetings we discuss our progress, future plans and other issues. We always try to identify difficult and time demanding areas of our work in advance, such as the vehicle construction, portfolio, marketing and overall competition strategy. We also seek for sponsors, technical specialists and consultants in order to obtain know-how and to make our work even more professional.

As individuals we all have very similar plans for the future. We are determined to finish high school and carry on with our studies as university students. We are hoping to get into very high ranked universities as Oxford, Cambridge or Imperial College of London. As a team we would like to continue our work even after finishing high school. Either with a local university team or somehow stay connected and compete together. Hopefully we will end up in the same university and we will try to dominate the university robotics scene as Columba Racing team.

Landrover 4x4 is a robotics and engineering competition where teams of 4-6 high school students are required to build an RC car and complete an obstacle course. The car has to include a 4-wheel drive system, a tilt sensor and a light sensor, so both the robotics and engineering skills are equally tested. Besides the performance of your car, its mechanical design is also important and carefully assessed by the judges. Just like in real life, the presentation of your product also plays a huge role in this competition.

When planning our car's visage, our biggest concern was to achieve the best grade of realism within our capabilities. For this reason our design is greatly influenced by the current trends in offroad vehicles, particularly those created under the supervision of experts from Land Rover. We also strive for precision with our models, which has helped us get used to modern and professional techniques of designing and manufacturing, such as digital modeling and 3D printing. This allowed us to concentrate more on reproducibility and ease of modification.

The ideology behind our work is to let everyone excel in fields that interests them the most and do a lot of team building. We look at mistakes as opportunities to learn and to grasp some new information. We try to set collective goals using online productivity tools to connect and achieve them. Other crucial aspect in our work is to have deadlines and finish things in time. We believe this is the key to effective and professional work.