Every year, the NXplorers programme runs awards programmes across the globe, celebrating the work of students and showcasing their impactful projects to their peers, their teachers and mentors as well as the wider community.
This year in Qatar Team Elite used the NXthinking tools they learned to reimagine the ways in which water and energy interact to deliver water to the people of Qatar.
The challenge
Through the use of the Perspectives Circle tool, Team Elite identified water filtration as one of the most important industrial activities in Qatar as well as being one of the most polluting. Through further exploration and application of NXthinking tools the team proposed a way to reduce the impact of water filtration on the environment.
The plan
The team explored the relationship between fuel and water filtration and identified that they could implement solutions to reduce the negative impacts of the emissions.
The solution
By mechanically purifying the gasses that are produced from the filtration process through the use of centrifugal force and porous materials, the team predict they can greatly reduce the negative impacts of water filtration in Qatar.
Training Reimagined - Indonesia
In Indonesia, the team has just completed their Train-the-Trainer programme ahead of the first cycle of NXplorers programmes in schools later this year.
Training Reimagined - Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, the team has just completed their Train-the-Trainer programme ahead of a first-of-its-kind NXplorers programme with teachers this year.
CRITICAL THINKING - THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE
When we combine different perspectives we close the gaps in the bigger picture and fill the different blind spots that every person has - try this exercise to see where your blind spots are.