21 July 2023
Elsa Marie Moorhouse has won the Primary Engineer Leaders Award with her innovative ‘power aid’ invention, designed to enhance memory function, directions, warnings, and hearing.
The competition, held at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), inspires school pupils aged three to 19 to take an interest in engineering by asking one simple question: ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ They were tasked with interviewing an engineer, identifying a problem they see in the world around them and designing a creative solution for that problem.
Judges praised the innovative ‘power aid’ idea by nine-year-old Elsa Marie Moorhouse for its ‘versatility and originality’. Elsa, a year four pupil at Wath Central Primary School in Rotherham, beat more than 3,000 entries from the Yorkshire and Humber region to win the overall award…
