The Philippine archipelago, blessed with rich marine biodiversity and home to some of the world’s most stunning beaches, faces an ironic reality: Despite being surrounded by seawater and the passing of the Salt Industry Development Law, the country still imports 93 percent of its salt supply. Few...
For most competitions, runner-up positions are deemed insignificant. But for the runners-up of this year’s James Dyson Award Philippines, the future looks promising. James Dyson Award is an international design competition that inspires and celebrates the next generation of design...
The prestigious and much-awaited annual student design competition, the James Dyson Award , run by the James Dyson Foundation, officially opened for entries, calling for novel inventions that tackle pressing real-world problems. Open to all engineering and design...
Jeremy de Leon bags this year’s James Dyson Award with is little but big impact invention—Make-roscope According to a Department of Science and Technology (DOST) report, over 4,500 high schools in the Philippines have no access to a designated and working science laboratory. Even...
Philippine State College of Aeronautics undergraduate is the inventor behind the sustainable sealant, made from Pili Tree resin, for aircraft integral fuel tank “I was struck by the lack of options to effective and sustainably-produced sealants in the aviation industry and thought there should be...
Since 2005, the James Dyson Award has challenged inventive and entrepreneurial undergraduates and recent graduates of engineering and design to "design something that solves a problem." Purposely broad and open-ended, the brief challenges students to solve big problems. Past winners have found...
Q&A with Carvey Maigue, on fighting climate change with his award-winning invention Carvey Ehren Maigue never imagined that fighting climate change would result in an invention that would change his life. And maybe, even, change the world. The Mapúa University student recently became the...
Over five thousand prototypes and quite a number of rejections by manufacturers in a span of more than a decade, one would think that inventor and engineer James Dyson should have given up and pursued a different path. No fear In an exclusive interview with James Dyson, he shared that most of...
