Article by Adam Duckett
The winning team from the Tiffin Girls School
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have won an inaugural sustainability competition launched in memory of chemical engineer John Davidson.
The winning team is called AdMeliora and includes Year 12 students Mehakdeep Kaur, Maya Rawat, Vivien Ablay, Niketa Walichchoru Evayage, and Akshita Sudhir from the Tiffin Girls School in Kingston upon Thames, UK. They developed the mask to combat the issue of increasing waste from disposable face masks used during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The University of Cambridge’s Davidson Inventors Challenge encourages 14- to 17-year-old UK students to use engineering problem-solving skills to develop an innovative solution that addresses one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.