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James Dyson Award 2020 is open and ready for ideas

Leigh :) StarkbyLeigh :) Stark
April 30, 2020
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Design and engineering students with a big idea that could help the planet might want to put some time aside for this year’s Dyson Award.

Ever think you can change the world, or think your kids might be able to? If they’re undergraduates or recent graduated of engineering and design degrees, they could just win a serious prize, and go on to making their inventions a commercial reality.

The Dyson-sponsored James Dyson Awards has opened up for the year, just like it has in other years around since 2005, but it comes with a bit of a twist this year. While the James Dyson Award is a fairly normal yearly occurrence in the technology and engineering world, typically there’s one international winner; this year, there will be two. That’s effectively double the chances to win the international prize, alongside winning at a national level beforehand.

Open to university students and recent graduates in engineering and design, the focus of the James Dyson Award is to essentially solve a problem, developing an idea that could be made commercial to fix a noted situation.

Previous winners and runner-up participants (who also get a prize) include an algae-based material to be used as an alternative for single-use plastic, a wheelchair accessory to enable off-road use, a melanoma detection device, a foldable paper bike helmet, and plenty of others, with the brief literally “design something that solves a problem”.

EcoHelmet, the 2016 James Dyson Award winner
The paper bike helmet, EcoHelmet.

In 2020, however, there’s a second additional prize if you design something that solves a problem and uses sustainability to make it happen.

International prizes for each category sit at around $55,000 for each of the international winners, with runners-up getting around $9,500, but before you get to that point, you need to win at a national level. Yes, there are heats run at a country level, with the first round basically having local entries judged before they reach the international level.

The prize might be a way to get you in, but it’s only one of the reasons, with commercial realisation a possibility for your idea afterwards.

“Winning the James Dyson Award will be a huge kick start to getting MarinaTex through the next phase of R&D and onwards towards production,” said Lucy Hughes, creator of last year’s winner, MarinaTex, the aforementioned material that uses sustainable algae as an alternative for single-use plastic.

“Additionally, I hope it will shine light on the importance of circular principles in the design phase and will leverage the importance of taking form, function and footprint into account,” she said.

Entrants do have some time to whip up their idea, though, if they want to get their idea and invention past the napkin stage and into the real world, with entries due by July 16, 2020. If you’re a design or engineering student, it’s time to get cracking.

MarinaTex, the 2019 James Dyson Award winner
The 2019 James Dyson Award winning MarinaTex.
Leigh :) Stark

Leigh :) Stark

One of Australia's well regarded technology journalists working out of Sydney, Leigh Stark has been writing about technology for over 15 years, covering phones, computers, cameras, headphones, speakers, and more. Stylising his middle initial with an emoticon, he aims to present tech in a way that makes it easy for everyone. You can find him on Twitter and Facebook where he's typically talking tech, and can tune into what he's listening as he writes via Apple Music. While he founded Pickr in 2016, Stark's work can be seen in other publications including The Australian Financial Review, Popular Science, and many more. His award-winning podcast "The Wrap" is syndicated on Southern Cross Austereo's LiSTNR network weekly, while he can be heard on radio via ABC Brisbane and ABC Canberra, and seen on TV's Nine. Check out Leigh Stark's most recent media appearances.

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