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Creativity Explorer

Ideas for creativity, media, education and the arts

Nick Palfrey

Moofu
Fun and effective classroom learning

23-year-old Nick is the founder and managing director of Moofu. After spending his school days struggling against the strict national curriculum he became passionate about using multi-media tools and new technology to make learning spaces better and maximise students’ potential.

Nick’s experience sparked an idea to provide creative learning resources such as podcasts and tailored films and harness games technology to encourage students to design, create and develop learning spaces. Moofu encourages student and teacher collaboration to create unique and exciting classrooms for future learning and will link into the government’s Building Schools for the Future project.

 

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Adventurer Explorer

Ideas for travel, adventure and the environment

Charles Coldman

African Promise
Helping schoolkids in rural Kenya
25-year-old graduate Charles Coldman spent his gap year in Kasigau, in rural south-east Kenya. His experience opened his eyes to the lack of education infrastructure, and he made a promise to the headmaster of the local school that he would return to give the pupils a better school.

Charles’ idea was African Promise: a UK registered charity which has been helping to construct classrooms, libraries and other facilities in five village schools. From an initial fund-raising amount of over £20,000, African Promise has transformed the lives and futures of the children of Kasigau.

 

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Online Venture Explorer

Ideas for business, technology and innovation

Laurence Kemball-Cook

Pavegen Systems
Creating green energy from walking

Laurence Kemball-Cook studied Industrial Design and Technology at Loughborough University. One day Laurence had a bright idea. Would it be possible to power street lights, shop fronts, even advertising boards, simply by walking down the street?

The result was Pavegen Systems, a company which develops paving solutions for harnessing kinetic energy from people walking along the pavement. The technology is in the process of being commercialised and could one day provide an important energy solution for the future.

 

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