A team of east Auckland students snatched first place in a national competition with an innovative idea.
Samsung has announced the winners of its 2022 Solve for Tomorrow competition, in partnership with Motat.
Solve for Tomorrow asks kids to identify an issue facing their community, and then come up with an idea to change the world for good.
A local team at Howick College wowed the judges, including associate professor Siouxsie Wiles, into a gold podium finish.
Their entry, ‘Non-Invasive Diabetics Device’, aimed to devise a more practical and less invasive way to get disabetics to measure their glucose levels.
Not only did the team ideate a breathing device and app to measure blood glucose levels for diabetics, they prototyped it too.
