Young Engineers at Loughborough Grammar Celebrate Success
Students from Loughborough Grammar School take top prizes at a prestigious national engineering competition
Two pupils from Loughborough Grammar School have been crowned winners of the UK Young Engineer of the Year title, and will now go on to compete in two international science competitions later this year.
The two students, Sankha Kahagala, aged 16, and David Bernstein, also aged 16, beat off competition from over 21,000 students from across the country. They will now travel to China for the China Adolescent Science & Technology Contest, where they will be the first young engineers ever to represent the UK. They will then travel to Estonia to compete in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists.
Sankha and David also won the annual Big Bang Competition in March. Designed to recognise and reward young people’s achievements in all areas of science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM), the national contest also helps young people build skills and confidence in project-based work. Sankha and David?s winning entry was E1, a wearable vest for those suffering from epilepsy. After witnessing an epileptic fit, Sankha teamed up with David to create a wearable vest that monitors heart rate variability and body temperature to efficiently predict a fit up to eight minutes in advance.
Once a fit is detected, the vest sends a message to both the wearer?s phone as well as possibly a carer to warn them that they need to seek help.
Above, Sankha and David...
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