Clancy student scoops design gong
Clancy Catholic College West Hoxton student Ava Eden has been named the winner of the 2020 Technology Education Challenge (TECx) – the largest online design challenge for students studying technology education in Australia.
The challenge required students to submit a concept that would help solve one of the complex and critical world problems highlighted by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Ava’s innovative water distribution system concept – which assists in solving issues relating to water availability during periods of drought in Australia – was deemed the winner after receiving the most votes.
The Year 8 student also received her very own brand-new 3D printer for taking out first place.
Doing it for the country
Ava’s concept featured a design for a mechanism that would capture rainwater in areas of Australia that experience high rainfall and would then redistribute that water to drought-affected areas of the country.
Ava said her idea was prompted by the need for Australians to act on climate issues which could soon become irreversible.
“Australia has been going through so many natural disasters in the last few years including drought and the bushfires, and I saw how much this has impacted the environment and the wildlife,” Ava said.
“I really wanted to think of an idea that could reduce this impact and help this problem.”
“The system I developed was a way I could help to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts here in Australia” – Ava Eden
A knack for design
Ava, who is part of the Newman Selective Gifted Education Program in her school, spent months conceptualising …
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