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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.
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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