This year the award grows across Asia – as bright students from Hong Kong and Taiwan are able to enter for the first time.
The Award celebrates ingenuity, creativity and sustainable engineering. And from raising $1 million in funding to setting up award-winning businesses, James Dyson Award winners go on to achieve great things.
James Dyson said: ‘Young people have the power to change the world through engineering.Each year the James Dyson Award sees truly remarkable solutions to real-life problems all approached from different angles. No problem is too big and the simplest solutions are the best – use the award as a stepping stone to take your invention towards commercialisation.’
Last year’s international winner was James Roberts, a 23 year old graduate of Loughborough University, UK. His winning invention was MOM, an inflatable incubator for the developing world. It provides the same performance as a $45,000 modern incubation system, but costs just £250 to manufacture, test and transport. James has now gone on to further prototype and test his invention.
James said: ‘Entering the James Dyson Award put MOM in the international spotlight. The public response and support was incredible, creating huge momentum towards commercialisation. I’m now further developing MOM, and hope to have it in production soon.’