The Earth Prize 2023 Winners Announcement
On Monday, April twenty fourth, The Earth Foundation held a completely digital occasion, The Earth Prize 2023 Awards Ceremony, to announce the winner and runners-up of its USD 200,000 environmental sustainability competitors for youngsters. Over 1,270 scholar groups registered from over 1,000 faculties throughout 116 nations and territories for the 2023 version of the competitors.
Team Delavo, made up of 4 younger ladies – Yagmur, Avjin, Damla and Irmak from Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey – was proclaimed the victorious recipient of the USD 100,000 grand prize that comes with The Earth Prize 2023 Winner title. The prize cash can be cut up evenly between the workforce members and the tutorial establishment with which they registered for the competitors, Bahçeşehir Koleji Fen ve Teknoloji Liseleri (Diyarbakir Bahcesehir College for Science and Technology High School).
Inspired by the issue of water shortage from droughts within the Tigris River basin the place they dwell, the workforce’s profitable thought is the “ECaundry” system, which addresses the truth that 20 gallons (75 liters) of poisonous waste water from each load of laundry on this planet’s washing machines contaminate the soil and groundwater. Once the ECaundry is connected to the machine its built-in hole ultrafiltration tubes and carbon filter deal with and reuse laundry waste water, thus conserving greater than 90% of it.
Avjin Aktop, member of Team Delavo, was visibly moved when she informed The Earth Foundation CEO Angela McCarthy, upon studying the information of their victory, “This means so much to us! We found the submission process quite difficult as we are very restricted by geographical and financial boundaries. We did not expect to be the winners.” Her teammate Damla Aslan added, “This moment feels unreal. We are so grateful because we all worked so much for this. We are ecstatic to see that it really paid off!”
Three runner-up groups had been additionally introduced and rewarded with a USD 25,000 prize for every of their faculties. These three groups are Team Agripod (Leicester Grammar School, United Kingdom), which created a soil knowledge assortment system which advises farmers on the optimum time to use fertilizers, thus slicing fertilizer waste by 70%; Team Bactoplastics (Winchester College, United Kingdom), which designed a novel, cost-effective technique of manufacturing biodegradable thermoplastics which may exchange most petroleum-based plastics utilized in packaging; and Team Agrivision (Polytechnic School, USA), which created an autonomous system utilizing hyper-spectral imaging to conduct dwell plant well being evaluation on crops to determine indicators of illness throughout early, treatable levels, thereby decreasing the principle explanation for crop losses.
The Educator of the Year Award went to Kathy Dada, a chemistry instructor at Collège des Sœurs des Saints Cœurs (SSCC) in Ain Najm, Lebanon, for her excellent contribution to environmental training and her group. The Mentors of the Year Awards got to Stephen Okoth (Oberlin College, USA), Chloe Luzar Macquarie University, Australia) and Pierfrancesco Merico (St. Gallen University, Switzerland) for his or her extraordinary steerage and assist to the individuals of the competitors.
The Earth Foundation is a nonprofit group primarily based in Geneva, Switzerland which goals to encourage, educate, mentor, and empower college students and younger entrepreneurs with modern concepts to deal with environmental challenges.
The full ceremony could be watched on The Earth Prize Youtube channel.
For extra info, please go to The Earth Prize or contact media@earth-foundation.org
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