We are delighted to announce the 6 winners of this year's Student Project Fund - South Africa!
The Student Project Fund is helping engineering students to elevate their projects through hands-on prototyping and experimentation as we believe practical skills to be essential for a young engineer's education journey.
The 6 winners will be provided with R10,000 in RS Products.
Please keep a lookout over the coming weeks as each winner will be creating a piece of DesignSpark content to showcase their project, and what products they have chosen.
The Winners
| Name | University | Project |
| Dylan | Nelson Mandela University |
The project focuses on designing and developing an Autonomous Solar Panel Cleaning Robot to address the critical issue of dust accumulation on solar panels, which can significantly reduce their efficiency. |
| Mishay | University of Cape Town |
The project aims to enhance the conservation efforts for the Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill in the Kalahari, a species currently facing endangerment. |
| Michael | University of Cape Town |
This project aims to impact preventative healthcare through early disease detection. By developing a low-cost, high-accuracy sensor array capable of identifying disease-specific VOC profiles, I hope to enable early diagnosis of diseases like Parkinson's. |
| Annabelle & Team TuksBaja | University of Pretoria |
Our team of engineering students is dedicated to designing and building a small, single-seater off-road vehicle that adheres to the rules set by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). |
| Shamira | University of Witwatersrand |
The purpose of this research is to fabricate and optimize anaerobic bio batteries, using banana waste as the substrate, to obtain optimal power density, longevity, stability, thermal resistance and biodegradability for energy storage in various industrial applications. |
| Lebogang | University of Johannesburg |
The objective of this project is to develop a real-time sensor-based monitoring system that can efficiently detect and remediate heavy metal contamination in water.
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CONGRATULATIONS, we can't wait to see your projects come to life!
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