BSL: Educate-2-Translate
Winners: Team Sign Champions, St Paul’s Girls’ School
Their idea is an app that uses AI to teach sign language with sign to audio or text translation capabilities and an expansive learning centre that teaches sign language interactively.
BioClear
People’s Choice: Team Elektrica, Wimbledon High School
Their ideas is a spherical robot which operates in water to remove microplastics, detecting them through infrared sensors, trapping them to magnets and allowing purified water to escape via a manta net.
Bluetooth Pollution Device
Runners-up: Team LABesties, Alderman Peel High School
Our idea is a wearable technology that measures air pollution in your local area and helps give tips on individual action to improve pollution levels.
Plasticivore – insect-powered plastic digester
Runners-up: Team The Real Meal, Liverpool Life Sciences UTC
Our idea is a self-contained digester box, designed for both homes and businesses, that uses mealworm larvae to break down non-recyclable plastic waste. Using sensors, the box can be remotely monitored to ensure optimal conditions for decomposition.
Rainforest Dragen Project
Runners-up: Team Rainforest DRAGEN, Mendip Studio School
Our idea is a product/hardware for recording environmental data (a remote data logger) with a focus on rainforests and conservation with a companion website/platform for sharing data, learnings and ultimately enable young people across the world to build their own.