Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation

	Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation is an award for excellence in engineering in Sub-Saharan Africa. Eight months are set aside to help the contestants. The winner is awarded £25,000, with the second, third and fourth runners-up gaining £10,000 each. History The award was introduced in January 2014 by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom. Competitor engineers must be from Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2024 Esther Kimani was the winner of the prize and, because it was the award's tenth year, she was awarded £50,000. She was second winner from Kenya. Kimani had developed a method of identifying diseases in crops using image analysis. Benefits Sixteen competitors are selected and they are given any support they need during the competition and beyond to deliver their projects. These competitors receive training and support and they get the opportunity to improve their networking. The winner receives £25,000 and the second, third and fourth places are awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Royal Academy Of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior fellow and remained so until his death. The Fellowship was incorporated and granted a royal charter on 17 May 1983 and became the Royal Academy of Engineering on 16 March 1992. It is governed according to the charter and associated statutes and regulations (as amended from time to time). In June 2024 His Majesty the King became Patron of the Academy. Conceived in the late 1960s, during the Apollo space program and Harold Wilson's espousal of " white heat of technology", the Fellowship of Engineering was born in the year of Concorde's first commercial flight. The Fellowship's first meeting, at Buckingham Palace on 11 June 1976, enrolled 126 of the UK's leading engineers. The first fellows included Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Esther Kimani Esther Kimani is a Kenyan engineer who developed a method of identifying diseases in crops using image analysis. Her awards included the 2024 Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation. Life Kimani was brought up in a farming family in a rural community in the mountains of Nyandarua in Kenya. She remembers how their crops could be lost to disease or how other farmers would spend money to apply the wrong chemical in fear of a ravaged crop. Farmers usually lose a third of their crop to diseases or pests in Kenya. On 8 September 2022, she was invited to an award ceremony where the Rwandan president Paul Kagame was a guest. It was the Africa Food Prize Awards Ceremony and she and Mark Musinguzi, founder of Hya Bioplastics in Uganda, shared the main prize of Ksh 6 million. She was also the 2022 Youth Adapt Winner. In 2024, Kimani was the winner of the Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation is an award for excellence in engineering in Sub- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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