The Waterline 2024 - Phillips 66 Sustainability Challenge Awards
Following the The Waterline Business Breakfast, the afternoon will focus on the next generation of sustainability leaders.
Ruth Amos, an award-winning inventor, engineer, and one-half of the YouTube channel Kids Invent Stuff will give an inspirational keynote speech to students as well as taking part in the judging process ahead of the Waterline Student Challenge awards.
You are invited to engage with these future innovators by visiting the student exhibition where you can discover next-gen solutions and vote for your favourite project.
Finalists of the Phillips 66 Sustainability Challenge will showcase their projects as part of the student exhibition. The top three teams will be invited to present their ideas on stage during the awards ceremony.
There are prizes at stake; £5,000, a trip to London to visit Parliament and Phillips 66 head office, as well as some great runners up prizes. The winning team will be invited to exhibit at the Great Northern Conference in December 2024.
The challenge is open to students in Year 9 /10 (KS 3 and 4) and 6th form/college (KS 5) working in teams of up to five. Students are tasked with developing an idea to help improve our communities, region, country and/or planet.
There are opportunites to be involved in the judging process.
Please get in touch for more information.
Keynote Speaker: Ruth Amos, Kids Invent Stuff
Ruth Amos is an award-winning inventor, engineer, and one-half of the YouTube channel Kids Invent Stuff.
Ruth is passionate about promoting the visibility of women in engineering. Having started as one of two girls in her resistant materials class at school, she went on to invent the StairSteady as part of her GCSE exams and became a young engineer for Britain – aged just 16! She patented the product and instead of going to university, started a company from her parents’ dining table – the StairSteady is now sold across the UK and Europe, and it is licensed in Canada, America and Australia.
Determined to make a difference in their sector, Ruth and her friend Shawn Brown co-founded Kids Invent Stuff to get more young people involved in – and excited by – engineering and science. Each month, they set a new invention challenge on the channel and 4-11 years olds are invited to send in their ideas as pictures and videos. Ruth and Shawn bring these weird, whacky, and wonderful ideas to life, documenting the creative process as well as the end result.
Ruth is the winner of many accolades including the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Rooke Award for the public promotion of engineering in 2023, an IET Honorary Fellowship in 2022, and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Alastair Graham-Bryce Award in 2021, to mention a few!
Ruth’s first book The Inventor’s Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each Other will be published in October, 2024 by Magic Cat. This wonderful book is about ten inventions that changed the world, exploring how they came about and the people who created them.
Great Northern Conference 2024
The Waterline is proud to support the Great Northern Conference as it comes to Hull for the first time.
The Great Northern Conference will gather prominent politicians, business leaders, media figures, and influential thinkers, making it a must-attend event for anyone looking to engage in discussions and help shape the future of the region.
We have a special 30% discount code for Bondholders. Please email the Future Humber team before you book your tickets.