KH past pupil wins the prestigious RSA Student Design Award

2011 past pupil, Megan Ellen Sands, after graduating from the NCAD, has won the prestigious RSA Student Design Award and internship in industrial design in the  AfricaPack category. Her project, Positive Future, improves the way medicines are protected, dispensed, distributed and/or taken in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Her brief was to propose design solutions that improve how medicines are packaged and transported and also explore how they are taken ensuring the experience of going from being ill to better can be enhanced by 'Frugal Design'

The RSA, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, is a prestigious UK organisation created to enrich society through ideas and action.

Megan and her colleague Sarah Twaddell also from NCAD won the GSK INTERNSHIP AWARD for 8 weeks paid internship with GSK and came first in her category of of 35 entries joining  25 overall winners of the 92nd RSA's Student Design Award out of 906 entries from 19 countries across the 5 continents. The Award was set up to challenge young people from all over the world  to address real life problems. The winners receive a prize of £32,000 in cash prizes and paid placements. Each entry is judged according to six criteria: social and environmental benefit, execution, research, design thinking, commercial awareness and magic.

Congratulations Megan!