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FoNS-MAD! Phase 2 teams announced

by Rebecca Middleton

9 teams have now been selected to go through to the next stage of the competition, where they will work on detailed project proposals.

Following the launch of the Faculty of Natural Sciences Make-A-Difference! Competition 2015 at an event in January, 14 teams registered to take part, having attended Ideas and Teambuilding Workshops run by the Competition Organising Committee.

Having submitted outline project proposals in March, 9 teams have now been selected to go through to the next stage of the competition, where they will work on detailed project proposals, to be submitted in May. 

successful teams

Team Name

Name

Department

ChaD

Ezra Kitson

Life Sciences

Henry Lloyd-Laney

Life Sciences

Adam Mills

Life Sciences

Ivan Zheludev

Life Sciences

The Velox Group

Lauren Dennis

Chemistry

Cameron Doughty

Life Sciences

Jakub Vaith

Chemistry

Gene-Rate

Haoyun Liu

Life Sciences

Taiwo Lawal

chemistry

Zimen Makwana

Chemistry

Dijana Spasenoska

Life Sciences

Hidden Gens

Stanislav Piletsky

Chemistry

Simon Rabinowicz     

Medicine

Cristian Zagar

Chemistry

Zeyu Yang

Chemistry

TYS

Yi Ju

Mathematics

Tiffany Lay

Chemical Engineering

Sanha Lee

Chemistry

Stratosphere

Zhe Lu

Life Sciences

Siyuan Wang

Life Sciences

Shiqi Wang

Life Sciences

Tianyou Wang

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

ETIC

Luyao Chen

Mathematics

James Debney

Life sciences

Andrew Lamb

Physics

FashTag

Jamie Coombes

Physics

Pietro Salvi

Physics

Quang Nguyen

Physics

Sci-Phy

Yue Wang

Physics

Benjamin Williams

Physics

Junyu Gao

Physics

The competiion, which is affectionately known as “FoNS-MAD!”, challenges all undergraduates in the Faculty of Natural Sciences to harness their creativity to develop innovative solutions to problems facing society. The competition, which takes place in three stages, seeks to identify the best student ideas for a low-cost technology with a positive social impact and develop them from idea to proof-of-concept.

The top three teams, as shortlisted by a panel of VIP judges, are given access to facilities to develop their project over eight weeks over the summer, with each student receiving a bursary of £1,500.  

As last year, the competition will be judged by a VIP panel of experts comprising of Professor Lord Robert Winston; Professor Sir John Pendry from the Department of Physics at Imperial; Professor Lesley Yellowlees, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. New to the panel this year will be Dr Ruth Allan, an Imperial College alumna who works in a project management role at Deloitte and is a member of their Women in Technology network.

More details of the competition can be found on the FoNS-MAD! website.