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A two-way AI-enabled sign language translator designed by teenagers has won a £20,000 technology prize. A team from St Paul’s Girls’ School in London came up with the idea for an intelligent real-time British Sign Language (BSL) translator after they were inspired by the experience of a friend who is deaf. The Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize – for schools across the UK – calls on 11- to 16-year-olds to design, develop and build prototypes of technological solutions for some of the worl...

LESLI has been dreamt up by Fulford School pupils A TEAM of school children from York are in with a chance of winning £20,000 after beating hundreds of youngsters from across the UK to make it to the finals of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize. The pupils from Fulford School dreamt up an app called LESLI that uses data from weekly mental health check surveys to recognise patterns in mood, and in turn, provide relevant, helpful resources. The Amazon Longitude Explorer ‘tech-for-good�...

A TEAM of students at Blacon High School, Chester, have beaten hundreds of young people from across the UK to make it to the finals of a technology contest. Their collaborative effort has ensured the school is now in the final of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize – a £20,000 ‘tech-for-good’ prize for young people. AroundtheCrowd, dreamt up by the pupils, is an app that uses user feedback and sensors tracing footfall to provide real-time information on the crowdedness of local are...

PUPILS from St Benedict’s Catholic High School have made it to the finals of a national competition aimed at budding inventors. Alisha Seath, 13, and Isabelle Ritchie,14, gained their places in the final of the Amazon Longitude Explorer of the Year Prize for their design of the Ecoknow app. The app would scan household rubbish and indicate where the nearest, suitable recycling point would be for any waste, as well as informing the user of the items carbon footprint. Judges commented t...