C2I 2023 STEM Initiative Winner: Powering the Future: South Tyneside and Beyond
School pupils from South Tyneside have been imagining the future of renewable energy in an ongoing invention challenge inspired and funded by Dogger Wind Farm.
Category: STEM Initiative
Headline Sponsor: Megger
Project: Powering the Future: South Tyneside and Beyond
Partners: South Tyneside Council with Dogger Bank Community Fund, Little Inventors, Ford Aerospace, Cell Pack Solutions, Ryder Architects, Port of Tyne and North Star Marine
The push towards net zero has never been more urgent than it is right now. For the majority of us this push is not for our own immediate benefit, but for the future generations to come, who, unfortunately, will face the environmental consequences of the damage already done.
As an upside, these future generations will be equipped with technology, materials and ideas that we cannot even fathom today, but we must do everything we can to put them in the best possible position.
This winner of the STEM Initiative category in this year's C2I awards has done exactly that, with the aim to encourage young people to use their imagination to ‘solve’ some of the planet’s problems, but also, crucially, to raise their awareness of the skills needed for a more climate conscious future.
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