This design competition invites Engineering and Science students to design and build extraordinary, creative and innovative commercially-viable prototypes to help housewives at home.
EWB Nigeria Student Design Competition will provides a platform for EWB Nigeria Students Members to present their solutions to a range of engineering challenges from everyday household tasks to ground breaking new technologies. Each team is required to design/construct and operate a prototype meeting the requirements of an annually determined challenge statement.
Requirements:
- Project must be innovative
- Design must be necessitated by market research
- Design must be commercially viable
- Design must be scalable and adaptable
- Design must be easy to use
- Design must come with a business plan
Eligibility:
- Any participant must be a student who is enrolled as undergraduate in an engineering/physics/science/engineering technology degree in a Nigerian university at any level during the present academic year.
- The competition is open to individual but teams of two to four members with different disciplines are encouraged. No team may have more than four members. An individual may participate on only one team. Each team may only have one entry. Only one team will represent a university. As such, there will be elimination at university level so that only a team from a university will get to the regional level.
- Each university is entitled to select one team to enter the regional competition
- Regional winner will be funded to compete at EWB Innovate Nigeria Conference, typically held in November of every year. At the final competition, the order in which teams will compete will be determined by lot. Non-finalist teams will also be eligible to participate in the final competition at the Innovate Nigeria Conference on a first-serve basis and at their own expense.
- In order to qualify for the travel allowance, all finalist team members must be EWB students members, in good standing, or if graduated, must have upgraded to professional member and be in good standing at the time of the conference.
