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Green Design Challenge winners
THE winners of the first Green Design Challenge beat off seven
other teams in the competition, held by Imperial College and Shell
Renewables, which aims to raise the profile of engineering among
young women.
Green
Design Competition winners with their wind turbine. Standing, left,
Philippa Walters, St Helens School, London; Sir RIchard Sykes,
rector; Mr David Jones, Executive Vice President, Shell Wind Energy
and Marie Harris, Newstead Wood School for Girls, Orpington, Kent.
Kneeling: Susanna Fragoso, Bhasvik, Brighton and Hove Sixth Form
College, Hove and Huong Trinh, Our Lady's Convent High School,
London. |
Pupils from Bhasvik, Hove; Newstead Wood School for Girls,
Orpington; St Helens School, London; and Our Lady's Convent High
School, London, took first place. Other teams won prizes for Cost
Effectiveness and Ingenuity and Design.
Aimed at female sixth form students with an interest in maths
and science, winners took part in the event on the South Kensington
campus on 30 June and 1 July, designing and building a wind turbine
capable of charging the battery to power a small hospital
fridge.
The overall winning team will attend a week long programme in
Wales designed and run by the Centre for Alternative Technology,
gaining experience in the day-to-day running of renewables such as
wind power and hydro-electric power schemes.
Karen de Segundo, Chief Executive Officer of Shell Renewables
said: "Meeting the engineering challenges of developing renewables
requires the best female minds, as well as the best male ones. I
hope that this competition will highlight to Britain's most
promising girls that through engineering they can play a crucial
part in resolving fundamental issues facing our society."
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