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GEMS students awarded for innovations

Top three winners will have opportunity to present projects at Singularity University Global Summit in Silicon Valley

More than 200 students across the GEMS Education network of schools were recognised at the GEMS Innovation Awards ceremony held to honour these young inventors.

The awards, given at GEMS Dubai American Academy, were spread across four categories: Global Innovation Challenge, GEMS Arab Innovation Centre for Education (AICE) Accelerator Programme, the Sony film-making competition and GEMS Innovative School of the Year.

The top three winners of the challenge will have the opportunity to present their projects at the Singularity University Global Summit in Silicon Valley, California, between August 20 and 22.

The three winning teams included Atharv Naik from Cambridge International School in Dubai with a research-based early skin cancer detection unit; Kasia-Alexei Delpeche from GEMS Wellington Academy Silicon Oasis with a plastic brick-based water filtration and level detection for rural areas; and Vishweswar Eswaran from GEMS Modern Academy with an IoT based stackable mobile farming unit.

In the AICE Accelerator Programme, the winner was RYDE, an anti-tailgating prototype from GEMS Millennium School, Sharjah.


The winner of the Sony CreatorUp Innovation Stories film competition was also awarded Dh10,000 for submitting their film called ‘Unlocked’. The winning team, from Jumeirah College, is called ZEY Productions.

A total of 250 GEMS students were awarded at the ceremony.

The Global Innovation Challenge took place earlier this year where students from around the world were invited to submit prototypes using future-focused technologies such as 3D printing, robotics and nanotechnology.

Dino Varkey, CEO, GEMS Education, said: “We understand the importance of innovation and technology in today’s world and the important role it plays in building a healthier tomorrow. At GEMS Education, we believe it is vital to provide a platform for today’s young minds to create, innovate and bring their ideas to life.”

Source: https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/education/gems-students-awarded-for-innovations-1.2223719