Submissions can now be made for the James Dyson Award (JDA), an annual design and engineering competitors open to rising designers throughout the globe.
Established in 2005, the award goals to assist the subsequent era of inventors by offering a platform to ship a technically and commercially viable answer to an issue – notably one which targets a sustainability concern.
“James Dyson believes that younger folks in STEM maintain lots of the solutions that may make a constructive change in the direction of tackling the world’s most urgent points,” a media communique from JDA reads. “So, the temporary is straightforward – clear up a real-world drawback that might make an actual distinction to folks’s lives.”
The competitors is held throughout nationwide and worldwide levels, with a nationwide winner receiving $9,950 to develop their invention, and the final word worldwide winner receiving $59,700. A Sustainability Grand Prize can also be on provide, to the worth of $59,700.
Up to now, Australian entrants have been awarded internationally. Ed Linacre, who received the worldwide award in 2011, developed an Airdrop irrigation idea to reap evaporated water moisture from the air. In 2024, Australian entrant Sorbet secured a spot within the award’s International High 20 with an acoustic panel design constituted of shredded family textile waste and a starch-based glue.
To qualify for the award, groups should be led by a present degree-level apprentice, college pupil, or a graduate from the previous 4 years, enrolled in engineering, product design or industrial design. Different crew members should be (or have been inside the previous 4 years) enrolled for at the very least one semester in an undergraduate or graduate schooling program.
This 12 months’s entries are set to be judged by a panel of consultants and a Dyson engineer. Three Australian entrants will likely be chosen for consideration for the International High 20, from which James Dyson himself will choose the worldwide winner.
The competitors is open internationally throughout a listing of nations, together with Australia. Particulars on easy methods to apply might be discovered on-line.
