QC students take 1st place in innovation challenge

Queen’s College copped first place in the inaugural Future Forward Schools’ Innovation Challenge.

QC and the other finalists were tasked with presenting homegrown solutions to problems impacting Barbados.

The challenge focused on some of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the participants were commended by education officials and sponsors for their presentations.

Among the ideas, a remote controlled seeder, an automated solar stop for eco-friendly transit and a solution to the sargassum seaweed problem.

Senior Research Officer of sponsor, Export Barbados, Pedro Hutchinson, encouraged the students to take their designs and innovations to the next level.

Second place in the challenge went to Harrison College and third went to the Seventh Day Adventist Secondary School.

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