Congratulations to the student team from KAPU (St. Josef Gymnasium) on winning first place in this year’s “Schüler macht MI(N)T” competition.
With their “eShake” project, the team of Franziska, Linus, Henrike, Zoé and Tom from Year 9 not only convinced the expert jury, but also won the audience award.
The student team’s idea perfectly captured this year’s competition motto, “Generate, optimise, convert energy”: using a coil, magnet, metal springs, a holder and a capacitor with a rectifier circuit and step-down module, their box converts unused kinetic energy – movement or “shaking” – into electrical energy. For example, passengers can get on a bus, connect their mobile phone to the “eShake” and charge it with previously unused kinetic energy during the journey.
Simply practical & clever!
As the KAPU student team’s partner company, we are particularly delighted by the smart idea and the inventive implementation, in which technical springs also play a decisive role.
Congratulations to the winning team and all the other participating teams – you have realised some really great project ideas!
Source of newspaper article: Bocholter Borkener Volksblatt, 19.06.2024; photo: Unternehmerverband Duisburg