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5 judged competitions, 2022 to 2025. Two first places, and one lens used a million times.
- 01
Engineering You're Hired 3rd Place
A decentralised swarm of pipe-crawling robots for inspection and leak detection, designed in a week against a real brief, with a panel at the end of it.
- SWARM
- ROBOTICS
- AI
- 02
hackSheffield 9 1st Place
A twenty-four hour hackathon, a team of four, and a prize for the one thing nobody optimises for at a hackathon: the repository.
- OPEN-SOURCE
- ENGINEERING
- DX
- 03
Public Speaking Competition 2nd Place
A talk on the legalisation of psychedelics, given to a room that included an RAF officer, a police lieutenant, and an advisor to the Prime Minister.
- ADVOCACY
- COMMUNICATION
- STAGE
- 04
Dragon's Apprentice Challenge 1st Place
A hundred pounds, a term, and a team. First place, and a separate award for creativity, which I have always taken as the more useful of the two.
- LEADERSHIP
- CHARITY
- ENTREPRENEUR
- 05
Snapchat Lens Competition Cash Prize
An augmented reality lens made at school, opened by more than a million people, and a prize that went to the department rather than to me.
- AR
- INNOVATION
- IMPACT