Senior Category (15 – 18 years old)
1st Place Winner – UAE representative to the Stockholm Junior Water Prize:
Sinchana Hiremath – GEMS Our Own English High School, Dubai
Water issue – Plastic Pollution
Innovative solution – Ceasing Microbeads Invasion: A movement for responsible consumerism in high schools to raise awareness on the detrimental effect of microbeads pollution, combined with a a novel Microbead Radar App to help detect plastic microbeads in labels of commercially available hygiene and cosmetic products.
2nd Place Winners:
Laiba Maqbool & Rhea Johnson – JSS Private School, Dubai
Water issue – Water-Food-Energy crisis
Innovative solution – ENAVRA: Recycling domestic grey wastewater using a novel system coupling hydroponics for food production and algal cultivation for water treatment.
Ceasing Microbeads Invasion by Sinchana Hiremath – 1st Place Winner – Senior Category
Middle Category (12 – 14 years old)
1st Place Winner:
Aliya Nujum Navaz – Al Ain Juniors School, Abu Dhabi
Water issue – Water scarcity
Innovative solution – Aqua Fire Flyze: An AI-enabled swarm of drones designed to reduce water usage during firefighting.
2nd Place Winner:
Akshita Iyer – GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai
Water issue – Water pollution
Innovative solution – TAMAM BYOB Lifestyle: Tamam Bring Your Own Box enables users to receive reward points for collecting and disposing cigarette butts to prevent marine pollution.
Aqua Fire Flyze by Aliya Nujum Navaz – First Place Winner – Middle Category
Junior Category (8 – 11 years old)
1st Place Winners:
Abdulla & Hamad saif Almazrouei – Ethen Primary School, Ras Al Khaimah
Water issue – Water scarcity
Innovative solution – Water is Matter: Repurposing traditional Kumbar rope fibers made of local palm trees to enhance irrigation water efficiency.
2nd Place Winner:
Madhav Krishna Seshadri Sumanth – Delhi Private School, Sharjah
Water issue – Water scarcity
Innovative solution – Water Economics: IoT-based data collection system that measures water usage in households, enabling cost analysis and encouraging conservation measures.
Abdulla & Hamad saif Almazrouei – First Place Winners – Junior Category
