PA’s annual competition aims to inspire the innovators of the future and challenges school children and college students to put their programming skills to the test.

Some of the ideas that have made it through to the 2018 final include:

a game to educate children on how to save energy by switching off appliances

a system for automatically monitoring the temperature of your home throughout the day, which will send you a tweet if your house gets too hot or too cold

a water meter which measures how many litres of water you use in the shower. After your shower, a message is sent to your device stating how much water has been used and the impact that this has had on the environment.

“The competition is a great opportunity for young people to use their coding skills  and imagination to tackle real world problems,” says PA’s Anita Chandraker, “it was designed to support the teaching and learning of STEM subjects in the national curriculum, we hope that it inspires the next generation to see the power technology can have in transforming the world.”