Wednesday 15 July 2015

What happens after you take part in one of SATRO's STEMX events?

What happens next after you take part in one of SATRO’s STEMX events?

This year Reading Girls School won our Siemen’s Challenge with a simple, yet highly innovative idea for addressing the issue of managing patients with Diabetes who live in remote areas. The DocSoc uses cutting edge piezo-electric materials to manufacture a simple sock which patients  can use, combined with a handy Phone App, to monitor the degree of feeling in their feet (a key indicator of Diabetes-related issues). The judges at the Siemens Challenge back in May were hugely impressed and awarded them first prize.

The girls had such fun taking part in the competition and interacting with Siemens’ staff that they exhibited their idea at the South East Big Bang Fair in Crawley – turn’s out they impressed the judges there hugely too! The team walked away with an amazing clutch of prizes:

KPMG Prize for use of Accounts
Network Rail Award for Women in Science and Engineering
Parafix Prize for Innovation
Pyroban Award for Design Technology
Society for Endocrinology – Rising Star in Medicine

Another couple of trophies and £220 prize money! 

There were many other schools there, some of whom also got 3 or 4 awards:  


We are very proud of them and their idea – and delighted that they took the initiative and went on to even better things after our competition had finished. We will keep an eye out in the future – we’re sure they will all go very far!

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