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Students working during Innovation Week
Coverage11 SEPT 2026

Innovation Week: five days from sketch to prototype

It started with a question chalked on a board in Lab 3: what problem do we see every day and stop noticing? Five days later there were eleven working prototypes and a closing exhibition in the…

It started with a question chalked on a board in Lab 3: what problem do we see every day and stop noticing?

Five days later there were eleven working prototypes and a closing exhibition in the courtyard.

The notebooks, not the prototypes

What struck the coverage team was not the prototypes but the notebooks: pages of crossed-out attempts.

Most of what we learned lives in the crossed-out pages.
A robotic arm built to sort waste
The waste sorter, mid-round.

On the last day students voted for three ideas to become full term projects.

EVENTInnovation Week closing exhibition