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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