A huge well done to Beverly Maloney from Royal Hospital School (@RHSSuffolk), announced as our Teacher of the Year at the TeenTech Awards Final! 🏆👏 Behind every student project entered for the TeenTech Awards lies the dedication, time and organisational skills of a teacher, technician, librarian or assistant who takes on the considerable extra work and planning that taking part involves. So this one is for all of you. Thank you to every teacher and member of school staff who goes the extra mile to give young people these incredible opportunities. We couldn't do it without you! 💛

Congratulations everyone. Maggie is on stage with some thank yous... Our incredible sponsors, your teachers and parents, the IET London team, the judges, the mentors and, most importantly... The students, our innovators of tomorrow! Thank you so much. Please do continue to share your posts, tag us, and we'll keep posting here over the next few days, and we'll have some highlight videos to share soon. Do check out our videos on YouTube - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… - and keep an eye on our social media channels for more posts. If you're here in person, safe travels, and enjoy a relaxing (and hopefully cooler) weekend. If you're following along from home or from school, thank you so much for being here and for supporting our innovators of tomorrow. See you in 2027!

We also want to celebrate somebody very special. Kathy Dare, a former teacher, who joined the TeenTech team back in 2012 and has been a driving force behind our TeenTech Festivals, TeenTech Awards and TeenTech City of Tomorrow. She's leaving our team and will be SO missed.

TeenTech appreciate that behind every student project entered for the TeenTech Awards lies the dedication, time and organisational skills of a teacher, technician, librarian or assistant who has taken on the considerable extra work and planning that participation involves. There will be an individual award for a teacher who we believe has shown exceptional imagination and dedication to help their students. This year’s finalists are: Amelia Jane Piper - MajorTim.space Young Ambassador Programme Lauren Poultney - The Roundhill Academy Amanda Jones - Beaumont School Beverly Maloney - Royal Hospital School

Joining the stage to announce the winner of our Ethical Innovation category is Lucy Batley, who reiterates that everyone is a winner today. The winner today, who delivered a superb presentation, is... AlerTree from The Coopers' Coborn and Company School. An inspiring winner, and huge well done.

We're now taking a look at the projects from the Ethical Innovation category! 📺 Watch the category video: youtu.be/m7rHzYYxQDQ ✉️ The MM Café, Connaught School for Girls (@connaughtsfg): a mental-health café reconnecting communities through letters. 🏘️ BIO-HAVEN Living, Dudley Sixth Form (@DudleySixth): affordable, sustainable social housing. 🐄 Pure Pasture, Harrogate Ladies' College: a methane-capture system for cattle farming. 👟 A Shoe-In, Leicester Grammar School (@LGS_Senior): ethically made children's shoes donated to charity. 🌲 AlerTree, The Coopers' Coborn and Company School: a low-cost wildfire detector that straps to a tree. 💊 Alarmed Medication Box, The Roundhill Academy: an alarmed pill box that doubles as a fridge magnet. 🧓 Project Geriatric, University College School (@ucshampstead): a companion device tackling loneliness in older people. #TeenTechAwards #STEM #EthicalInnovation #Sustainability #YoungInnovators

A thought-provoking One-Minute Wonder from Hannah Gibson of Diverse Integration! 💛 After praising just how incredible this year's projects have been, Hannah turned the conversation to accessibility. Last year she explored accessibility through the lens of disability. This year, she framed it differently: WTV, or "What The Vulnerability". To bring it to life, she got the whole room on their feet, asking everyone to sit down if a statement applied to them: 1️⃣ Have you ever broken a bone or had an illness and needed time to recover? 2️⃣ Have you ever been through a major family event? 3️⃣ Have you ever been too nervous to ask a question, thinking everyone else already knew the answer? 4️⃣ Have you ever had a bad night's sleep and felt overwhelmed? Within moments, almost the entire room was seated, just a couple of people left standing. Were those the faces we picture when we say "vulnerable"? Hannah's powerful message: vulnerability isn't a label for a few, it's a human experience that touches all of us, and accessibility is what props us up in those moments. So when you design something, build in accessibility from the start. Design for everyone. 🌟 Follow along all day on our live blog! ✨ 🔗 teentech.com/teentech-awards… #TeenTechAwards #STEM #YoungInnovators

Our Best Use of AI category was incredibly popular this year, with so many great ideas for harnessing the power of AI for good. Andy Kiln from sponsor SSCL is announcing the winner. He's thanking students for the huge dose of positivity, and he asks that they continue to dream big and shape the world. The winning projects are Blertly from Queen Elizabeth's School and PromptaCare from Merchant Taylors School (@MerchantTaylors). Well done!

We're now taking a look at the projects from the Best Use of AI category, sponsored by SSCL! 📺 Watch the category video: youtu.be/-MlZixa6im8 🎓 PathWise, Cheltenham Ladies College (@cheltladiescoll): a platform guiding students towards top universities. 🖼️ AI Image Comparison, Individual Entrant: a tool comparing images to spot differences and patterns. ♻️ AI Smart Recycling Bin, Malvern St James (@MSJ_OGA): a bin that teaches children how to recycle. 📞 PromptaCare, Merchant Taylors School (@MerchantTaylors): an AI service phoning elderly patients about medication. 📚 Blertly, Queen Elizabeth's School: an adaptive AI study tutor. 🦠 Algae AI Alert, The Thomas Hardye School (@thomashardye): an early-warning system predicting harmful algal blooms. #TeenTechAwards #STEM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #YoungInnovators

We're now taking a look at the projects from the Education category! 📺 Watch the category video: youtu.be/g0QkzMyKdMs 🚦 QuietLight, Leicester Grammar School (@LGS_Senior): a traffic-light device that manages classroom noise. 🗣️ AUDIO, Miltoncross Academy (@MiltoncrossAcad): a browser app giving bilingual students real-time translation. 🎲 Studibrain, Ranelagh School: an interactive board game that makes GCSE revision fun. #TeenTechAwards #STEM #EdTech #Education #YoungInnovators

What a story! ⚽ Paul McVeigh (@Paulmcveigh77) takes to the stage with his One-Minute Wonder. A former forward and winger who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City, Burnley and Luton Town, Paul knows all about reaching the top. His secret weapon? Paul McKenna's Sports Hypnosis cassette! 🎧 Long before his success on the pitch, Paul used it to visualise his career, picturing exactly where he wanted to be. A brilliant reminder to our young innovators of the power of believing in yourself and imagining what's possible. 🌟 Follow along all day on our live blog! ✨ 🔗 teentech.com/teentech-awards… #TeenTechAwards #STEM #YoungInnovators

Great projects in our Design & Construction category. There can only be one winner. Announced by Lettie Ndlovu, lead judge of the category, the winning project is Modular Keyboard from St. Paul's Girls' School. We even had a drumroll for this one!

We're now taking a look at the projects from the Design & Construction category! 📺 Watch the category video: youtu.be/blbiKG8PFGQ 🧺 Sporty Laundry Basket, Ranelagh School: a fun, interactive basket that gets teens tidying up. ⌨️ Modular Keyboard, St. Paul's Girls' School: a customisable keyboard whose keys connect with magnets. 🏃 Athletes Brace Supporter, Warminster School (@Warminster1707): a smart brace supporting injured athletes in recovery. #TeenTechAwards #STEM #Design #Engineering #YoungInnovators

On stage, right now, is Paul Sutton, from NHS Shared Business Services, to announce the winner of our popular Patient Safety category. He says it was incredibly difficult, but well done to MoodScan from St. Paul's Girls' School, the winners today!

We're now taking a look at the projects from the Patient Safety category, sponsored by NHS Shared Business Services (@NHS_SBS)! 📺 Watch the category video: youtu.be/ksD36oZVR4M 🚰 Obo Smart Water, Connaught School for Girls (@connaughtsfg): a smart bottle that tracks your hydration. 💊 MedX, Dame Alice Owens (@damealiceowens): a machine that dispenses and labels prescriptions safely. 💬 BetweenUs, Farlingaye High School (@FarlingayePE): an app anonymously pairing people with similar worries. 🫀 HeartShot, Individual Entrant: an AI system diagnosing heart conditions from very few examples. 😊 MoodScan, St. Paul's Girls' School: a wearable that reads facial expressions to help recognise emotions. 🚑 VitalLink, The Blue Coat School Liverpool (@LiverpoolBCS): software streaming live cardiac data from ambulances to hospitals. #TeenTechAwards #STEM #PatientSafety #HealthTech #YoungInnovators

Victoria Cleland, Chief Cashier, Bank of England, is on stage, showcasing her One-Minute Wonder, which is all around the security contained within a bank note, something that her team are responsible for and innovating on. She has teams of scientists working on making counterfeiting as difficult as possible. So, there's a lot of science in your pocket. She's also telling us how they'll be moving to featuring British wildlife on banknotes going forward.

Kerrie Mitchell has taken to our #TeenTechAwards stage to announce the winner of the Creative and Digital Media category. It goes to Capybuddy from Royal Hospital School (@RHSSuffolk). Massive well done, and we know your families are following our live blog from home.

We're now taking a look at the projects from the Creative and Digital Media category, sponsored by Amazon (@AmazonUK)! 📺 Watch the category video: youtu.be/0KFafkvHZx4 🦫 Capybuddy, Royal Hospital School (@RHSSuffolk): an app matching students with trained peer mentors. 🎭 OffScript, St. Paul's Girls' School: an open-source tool helping actors learn their lines. 🍽️ Smart Shopper, The Polesworth School (@PolesworthSchl): a helper for planning tasty, fresh family meals. #TeenTechAwards #STEM #DigitalMedia #Creativity #YoungInnovators

Stefan Hay is here to announce the winner of our BRAND NEW Next Gen Home Innovation category. He says all the teams are winners in his eyes. But, the category winner is SoilBuddy by University College School (@ucshampstead).