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The James Dyson International Prize announced that an Emirati team from Heriot-Watt University won the award at the local level this year in the United Arab Emirates, for inventing the FireOut system to protect wildlife and lands by adopting environmentally friendly technologies.
The winners, namely: Tasnim Nawar, Dina Sabahat, Iman Rashid, Zahid Rahman and Zahra Tunjiker, expressed their pride in winning the international award, as this system was designed with the aim of controlling wild fires, and the idea of ​​the system emerged from climate changes that exacerbated the occurrence of forest fires in different parts of the world. FireOut was invented by a team of five students from Heriot-Watt University, who identified areas that suffer frequent wildfires in the dry season, and that do not receive enough rain in the winter season, and the team worked to design a system that stores rainwater in Off-season for use in dry season bushfire control. The second Emirati team won from Abu Dhabi Polytechnic University; The title of “Wasef” for his invention of YESCOMPOST to prevent food waste, through a smart application for planning and managing grocery shopping, and the team includes: Abdul Rahman Al Shamsi, Hamid Al Yamahi, Mahra Al Rumaithi, Fatima Al Muraikhi, and Hamdan Al Shehhi. The transfer of energy".Over the past five years, the James Dyson Award has challenged undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurs in engineering and design disciplines in the UAE to “design something that solves a problem” and encourages participants to provide open-ended, broad-based solutions to pressing global problems.