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Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize: Vote for your favourite tech for good idea!
11 June 2021
The People’s Choice Awards are now live, and calls on the public to vote for its favourite tech solution developed by 11-16 years old’s, to award one team £5,000 for their school or youth group!
After an exciting three months of virtual learning, teamwork and prototyping, we are nearly ready to decide who the winner of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize is. But it’s not just down to us! Once again, we are opening up our awards to the public and asking everyone to engage with the amazing solutions our young inventors have developed by voting for their favourite!
Following 100+ applications from across the UK this year, and despite hurdles including a national lockdown, 40 teams were selected by our expert judges to participate in the finals. Over the last few months, each of the teams have taken an initial idea and developed it into a solution which uses technology for social good, aligned to one of our four themes:
- Live longer: How can technology meet the needs of an ageing society?
- Live better: How can technology help us stay happy and healthy in our day to day lives, and improve the lives of others?
- Live together: How can technology help us live together and stay connected in a way that is easy, safe and environmentally friendly?
- Live greener: How can technology meet the needs of an ageing society?
Some of the brilliant ideas that were thought up by the amazing teams
Shop Organic Save Our Planet
How organic purchases could help the planet
River Plastic Cleanup
A possible way to remove plastic waste from rivers
Medibox
How an app could help with medical treatment management and health
LQBTQ Youth
How an app could connect and support young LGBTQIQ+ people
Green Groceries
An app that could measure the amount of recycling a person generates
Electro saver
A way to measure the energy that could be generated or lost by different activities at home
Carbon Footprint Calculator
An app yo calculate and gamify people’s carbon footprints
Bioclear
A possible way to removed plastic waste from the oceans
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Innovations that you can vote for range from a device that generates electricity every time a door opens; robotic medicine dispensers for elderly people; plastic-eating worm farms; rainforest monitoring stations; and an app that helps young women tackle period poverty.
The winning team of the Amazon Longitude Explore Prize People’s Choice Award will receive £5,000 for its school or youth group to help further develop their innovative idea or invest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) and entrepreneurial resources.
You won’t regret taking a moment to read about the challenges young people are passionate about and their brilliant ideas on how to solve them! Voting is open for only limited time; from Friday 11 June 2021 to Friday 2 July 2021.