Somervale Student Wins Prestigious Dyson Award

Each year the Dyson Award is offered to all students embarking on an engineering degree at Bath University. The Award is to recognise the student who shows the most creativity and invention within the engineering field. This year the Award has been won by Somervale student Joe Slade.

Joe achieved two A grades in Maths and Physics as well as a C in Chemistry to win a place on the Electrical and Electronic Engineering course at Bath University. This is widely regarded as one of the best courses in the country.

He submitted a paper to the Dyson competition which outlined several inventions he had tinkered with to solve some every day matters. A few examples included; building a K'nex model, five feet tall to demonstrate the appearance of centrifugal force, constructing an air conditioning unit out of old coke bottles and some kitchen roll tubes, a cooling system for laptops, to prevent the laptop power supply from overheating and a quiz game style buzzer system, designed to be used during a family Christmas party!

He is clearly set for an exciting career in Engineering.