AMMAN — Three young Jordanians won the inaugural
Prince’s Trust Group’s Sustainability Award, for “EcoRoad”, an ingenious way to
use speed bumps to generate electricity, according to Ammon News.
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The awards
ceremony, which was held at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre in London, celebrated
young people from various Prince’s Trust programs, and was broadcast across the
UK for the first time in the program’s 17-year history on ITV.
For most people,
speed bumps are a common and unremarkable phenomenon for maintaining road
safety, but for a team of young entrepreneurs in Jordan, they are an inspiration.
Zaid, aged 15, Maya and Mohammed have come up with “EcoRoad”, adapting bumps to
absorb and transform dynamic energy from passing cars, and then storing
electricity in batteries for sale.
The EcoRoad team
has now received initial funding to develop their idea, and the prototype is
under technical development with a local company.
The group
developed and implemented the idea in Prince’s Trust International’s Project
Challenge Program in partnership with local organization “Injaz”. Having
already outscored more than 2,300 participants to be crowned the winner of the
National Projects Challenge, the team is now a double champion taking home the
Sustainability Award.
The team’s idea
was assessed based on its environmental and societal impact, innovative approaches,
resource use, and ease of application in different regions.
The winning team
described that “winning this award means a lot to us as a team. This will help
us inspire other young people to bring about change. I suggest that all young
students invest their time in projects like this - it’s important for our
future and for everyone around us, as we look to build a more sustainable
life”.
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