OUR TEAM

DIFFERENT

MAJORS

80%

INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS

DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES

2019

TEAM POLAR IS FOUNDED

Team Polar started with six students, after the initiator, Wilco van Rooijen, brought the project to Eindhoven University of Technology. After a year of hard work, the team came to several conclusions about the vehicle, the most important one being that doing sustainable, autonomous research on Antarctica is feasible.

2020-2021

RESEARCHING FOR THE FIRST PROTOTYPE

In 2020-2021, the team has grown rapidly to eleven highly motivated with three different nationalities and eight different bachelors/masters; leading to an extremely diverse and motivated environment in which innovation is constantly happening.

2021-2022

BUILDING THE FIRST PROTOTYPE

In 2021-2022, some members left but we gathered many more, expanding the team's efectiveness to 17, bringing even more diversity to the mix.

2022-2023

FIRST PROTOTYPE IS TEST-DRIVEN

This year of 2022-2023, we have grown to a massive 27 members and have thereby become one of the largest teams on the TU/e campus. Being 80% international and representing ten different faculties at the university, we can truly call ourselves a multidisciplinary team.