Team Recycle Rex Win Power Pitch Award In The 2020 Global Conrad Challenge Innovation Competition

Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 02:41 pm

Ojih Favour, Idris Elizabeth, Akalugwu Chibuzor & Eghahi Anthony from Team Recycle Rex, students of Government Science and Technical College, Garki Abuja have won the Power Pitch Award in the Global Conrad Challenge Innovation Competition and multiple undergraduate scholarships.

The Conrad Challenge is an annual innovation challenge designed for high school students between the ages of 13 – 18. The challenge is designed for participants to apply their knowledge of science and technology, engineering, and mathematics to solve real-world problems around them. The competition brings together about a thousand five hundred participants worldwide.

Team Recycle Rex’s project tilted: ‘Composite Floor/Wall Tiles’, a highly durable water-resistant affordable floor/wall tiles that are made from waste polyethylene materials won them several awards including one million Naira grant from the Presidential Standing Committee on Inventions and Innovations (PSCII).

The Conrad Challenge was founded in 2008 by Nancy Conrad, wife of the late NASA astronaut Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad, with the aim of continuing his legacy in innovation and entrepreneurship. It consists of four categories which include Aerospace and Aviation, Health and Nutrition, Energy and Environment, and Cyber Technology and Security.

The Conrad Challenge debuted in Nigeria in 2018 and runs in three stages: the entry round, the semifinals, and the finals. Teams compete through the different stages by making elevator pitch videos about their ideas, creating prototypes, and commercially viable strategies to help them take their ideas to market. Visit www.ngconradchallenge.org to learn more about the innovation challenge.

The Energy and Environment category of the Global Conrad Challenge summit was initially scheduled to be held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. However, due to the pandemic, the global summit was held virtually from 27th – 29th May 2020.

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