A team of young people from Fairfield High School for Girls in Droylsden have beaten hundreds of young people from across the UK to make it to the finals of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize.
The team is now in with a chance to scoop a £20,000 ‘tech-for-good’ prize for young people.
Remember When, dreamt up by local pupils ‘The STEMinists’, is an app designed to help people with dementia, with customisable games that aid with memory retrieval, and reminders for important tasks.
In all, 40 inspirational projects from teams of 11-16-year-olds are now in the running to win the £20,000 first prize after being shortlisted.
The Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize received more than 150 entries this year from over 500 young people across the UK.
The finalist teams will each be connected to an expert mentor from Amazon and other industry-leading organisations.
They will mentor teams on topics such as data analytics, software engineering, robotics, and app development, to create prototypes of their concepts to help determine the winner, which will be revealed this July.
They will all be invited to participate in the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prizes’ Enterprise Academy business day workshops and will also receive one-to-one technology support from FireTech UK - the UK’s leading technology course provider for children aged eight to 17.
In July, the winning team will be awarded £20,000 for its school or youth group, with three teams of runners-up to be awarded £5,000 each for their school or youth group.
The public will also be given the chance to choose their favourite design in the People’s Choice Award in June, the winner of which will receive £5,000 prize money for its school or youth group.
The Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize aims to address the lack of diversity in STEM industries by providing young people from all backgrounds with an introduction to the possibilities of entrepreneurship in STEM and becoming the disruptors of the future.
This year, more than half (58 per cent) of all entrants to the 2021 Longitude Explorer Prize are young women.
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