Social Innovation Relay winners announced

A group of students from Sunward High school, also known as team Planet Researchers, have been awarded the top prize in the 2011 Social Relay competition organised by Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise in partnership with HP. The Social Innovation Relay encourages students aged 15-18 to develop concepts that are socially innovative and could have a significant positive social impact.
This year, the winning team’s submission focused on clean energy and combining carbon dioxide with water to generate electricity, and their presentation highlighted the immense electricity challenges facing South Africa, with about 3-million homes having no access to this basic resource.
The finals were held at HP’s Johannesburg offices where submissions were judged by a panel made up of Mr. Frank Van Rees – HP SA Managing Director and Enterprise Business Country Manager, Mrs. Gois Fouche – HPSA Transformation Manager, Mr. Praveen Govender – HPSA Software Group Country Manager, and Mr. Abby Wakama, Executive Editor and CEO – ITNewsAfrica.
The winning team will connect with other students in South Africa to crowd source and develop their ideas as they take it to the next level – the Global Social Innovation Relay Final! Participating countries include Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, France, India, Kenya, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, USA and the UK.
The Social Innovation Relay runners-up in the South African leg of the competition were teams Rubricks and Make Your Mark.

Bontle Moeng, ITNewsAfrica