150 students showcase innovations in Dubai
The Investment Corporation of Dubai and the Global Grad Show will work together to instil a culture of innovation amongst the global youth.”
Douraid Zaghouani, COO, Investment Corporation of Dubai
dUBAi — Students from the world’s most elite universities are coming to dubai to showcase their inventions, including a device that has been designed to spot cancer cells in 10 seconds, a lamp with WiFi and jelly beans that cure dehydration.
The display will be part of the fourth annual Global Grad Show being held for the dubai design Week (ddW). A total of 150 projects by students across 100 universities from around the world, including ivy League schools such as Harvard, Massachusetts institute of Technology and Royal College of Art, will be on show.
This year’s event will also include the innovation Conference, which aims to look at creativity in the age of artificial intelligence and automation. The dubai Evolution Challenge will be another addition and will bring international and UAE students together.
Renowned author and designer Brendan McGetrick has chosen this year’s projects. He said: “Global Grad Show is not only a showcase of ideas from the brightest young minds around the world, it’s a celebration of creativity and optimism. Graduates today are faced with daunting truths such as climate change, automation and mass migration. Each of these projects offers a restorative solution — an idea of how to make human-scale changes with the hope of bettering humankind as a whole.”
One project tackling the issue of climate change, for example, is the ‘STEM – Perfect Ecosystem’ invention by student Peter Cheah. inspired by the decline of bee population globally, Cheah has designed a new agricultural system that focuses on the continued production of pollinate plants in case the natural insect pollination stops working.
A project looking into health sciences, Masspec Pen is a handheld device that can detect cancer cells during surgery and give realtime feedback to surgeons within 10 seconds. To do this, the device tip touches a tissue sample, where diagnostic molecules are analysed using a mass spectrometer. These molecules serve as a fingerprint to distinguish cancerous from normal tissue. it has been invented by students Livia Eberlin, Jialing Zhang and Thomas Milner, who are in the fields of chemistry, engineering and medicine.
Lewis Hornby has invented jelly drops to help the aging population against dehydration. They are made with 90 per cent water and their solid format aims to help increase hydration. The show is free to attend and will take place from November 13 to 17 at the dubai design district.