India's Deval Karia wins staggering amount in this competition: Here's how to apply
India's Deval Karia has won a staggering amount of £30,000 in James Dyson Award competition: Here's how to apply
Every year around 250 students from across the globe participate in the James Dyson Award and they get prize money of £1m. This year an Indian student has made it to the coveted list. Deval Karia from Bangalore has received an appreciation for the invention of LifeBox.
"India has an abysmal rate of 200 heart transplants annually, despite a staggering 50, 000 people in need. Institutional factors aside, the inability to move hearts from a donor to the recipient is a major hindrance to bridging this gap," Deval Karia said.
He further said, "The project has its genesis in a course taught by Prof.B. Gurumoorthy, Prof. A. Ghosal at CPDM, with a vision to explore drones for organ transportation. However, we soon realized that without active preservation techniques, drones will not do much to improve the rate of heart transplants in India. This led to a shift in focus: a portable system that can extend the out-of-body viable time of the heart."
The James Dyson Award has now given nearly £1m in prize money to over 250 promising inventions from young engineers and scientists in 28 countries around the world. In 2021, the Award received a record number of entries worldwide and Sir James Dyson chose three global winners for the first time, each receiving £30,000 in prize money to support the next stages of their inventions.
Commenting on this year’s competition, Sir James Dyson said,
“I enjoy seeing the enthusiasm with which young people tackle the world’s problems using good design, engineering, and science. So promising were this year’s entries that we were awarded the third prize, focused on medical invention. Commercialising an idea is very hard I hope that the awareness that the Award drives, as well as the financial support it provides, will give these ideas a springboard to success.”
James Dyson Award competition entry invitation
Design something that solves a problem. This problem may be a frustration that we all face in daily life or a global issue. The important thing is that the solution is effective and demonstrates considered design thinking. Unlike other competitions, participants are given full autonomy over their intellectual property.
The process. Entries are judged first at the national level by a panel of external judges, before progressing to the international stage. A panel of Dyson engineers then select an international shortlist of 20 entries. The top 20 projects are then reviewed by Sir James Dyson who selects his global winners.
James Dyson Award 2021 prizes
The International winner receives a prize of £30,000, plus £5,000 for the winner’s university.
The Sustainability winner and the Medical winner receive a prize of £30,000.
Each National winner receives £2,000.
How to participate in James Dyson Award competition
Candidates enter through an online application form via the James Dyson Award website. Entries open again on 16 March 2022. Entrants should concisely explain what their invention is, how it works, and their development process. The best entries solve a real problem, are clearly explained, show iterative development, provide evidence of physical prototyping, and have supporting imagery and a video.
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