Discovering student projects in the do your :bit challenge
Aimee Fagan · 2022
The do your: bit challenge is a global design challenge for young people aged 8 – 18 focusing on the UN's Sustainable development Goals (SDGs). The challenge adds social purpose to digital learning and allows students to apply their digital skills to real world solutions. Young innovators are encouraged to design solutions to the goals using the BBC micro:bit device – a small, programmable computer with a wide range of inputs, outputs and sensors. Using computing, design and prototyping, student submissions are as ambitious as they are empathetic. This demo session will offer an overview of some such innovations, designed by young people to address a series of goals. Participants to the session will see video prototypes of designs using the micro:bit including a solar panel for reusable energy, a portable filtration device and a paper prototype (drawing) of a reusable, virtual facemask.