PUPILS from a Liverpool school have scooped a national prize for an invention to help tackle climate change.
Backed by Mayor Steve Rotheram’s Community Environment Fund, the team from Kings Leadership Academy Hawthornes in Bootle won over judges with their ‘Bouncepadz’ idea which uses kinetic energy to convert footsteps into electricity in high traffic areas.
TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham CBE presented the Young Green Briton Challenge award at a special event at London’s City Hall yesterday, hosted by Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy Mete Coban MBE.
Young Green Briton Challenge is organised by the Green Britain Foundation with Community Interest Company, Social Innovation for All, and GenEarth CIC in partnership with Widnes-based EcoVida Routes.
It was one of 18 schemes which successfully applied for a share of this year’s £350,000 Community Environment Fund (CEF).
They used £15,000 from the fund to engage with more than 800 young people from schools across the Liverpool City Region – helping them to put their ideas into action and running going educational workshops and Dragon’s Den style pitches.
