Posts Tagged Rachel Riley

In April we launched Internet Explorer 8 Life Academy, a national competition to give 18-25 year olds a chance to explore their future potential and win a £10,000 grant to make their socially responsible idea a reality.

The Internet Explorer team was amazed with the response and has spent the last month going through the fantastic entries to reveal the finalists. These 12 lucky entrants will now battle it out live on Friday 25^th June in front of a high profile judging panel comprising of Professor Robert Winston, entrepreneur and lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman, Countdown mathematician Rachel Riley, Channel 4 technology journalist Benjamin Cohen and Microsoft Director Leila Martine to win one of three £10,000 grants.

Shortlisted ideas include building schools in Kenya; flying old hospital equipment to Uganda; providing careers information for young people; creating green energy from footsteps or providing a politics platform for aspiring councillors.

But who made the cut? Check out the 12 finalsits below, including their initial pitch video or alternatively click here www.lifeacademy.uk.com

Adventurer Explorer Grant

Charles Coldman Video Entry

African Promise: a UK registered charity which over the last couple of years has been helping to construct classrooms, libraries and other facilities in five village schools

Luke Duggleby Video Entry

Finishing a vocational centre in Uganda, bringing the internet and services that will significantly improve their educational communication

Abbie Hinton Video Entry

Travel to different countries to train football coaches and bring communities together.

Kate Hollingshead Video Entry

Use a website to help link a hospital in Uganda to medical/midwifery students for their electives.

Online Venture Explorer Grant

Eve Bugler Video Entry

Space@Mine will connect Space Searchers and Space Sellers. From sheds and gardens to parking spaces and garages, from meeting rooms to sports fields there’s space out there that’s just waiting to be used. The unloved garden becomes an allotment; the spare shed a useful bike-store, the empty meeting room a vital meeting place for a charity.

Rowenna Davis Video Entry

Many young people are disillusioned and disengaged with mainstream politics. Meanwhile, local governments around the country are struggling to find new councillors. This idea solves two problems at once by encouraging young people to stand for local government.

Rajeeb Dey Video Entry

Given the unprecedented level of graduate unemployment Rajeeb wants to highlight entrepreneurship as a viable and rewarding career path. Start-ups do not have the time or resources to market themselves on campus, neither do they have the ‘brand’ to automatically attract candidates. Therefore Enternships.com provides a way for start-ups to connect to talent on campus.

Laurence Kembell-Cook Video Entry

Pavegen is a way for people to generate green energy from their footsteps whilst walking down the street.

Creativity Explorer Grant

Tom Dodds Video Entry

Exposure Live is a not for profit project to provide an online platform for local musicians and artisits of any genre.  It also trains the community in studio engineering, mixing, recording and outside broadcasting.

Dale O’Keefe Video Entry

Follow My Leader wants to create a careers information website aimed at 16-30 years olds to help them with their career choices.

Nick Palfrey Video Entry

Build learning spaces using a simulator or video game so that 3D models of proposed schools can be explored by students, teachers and parents with amendments made and sent back to the architects.

James Trendell Video Entry

Crowd Magazine is a free, advertising subsidised, lifestyle magazine for creative and innovative 16 to 24 year olds where the content is entirely produced and edited by its own readers. It will provide young people with a platform on which to publish their work.

Tags: Benjamin Cohen, Brent Hoberman, internet explorer 8 life academy, Leila Martine, Microsoft, Rachel Riley, Robert Winston