Congratulations to:

- Abigail Raychiele Tantono, HS Student

- Christie Feodora Suanthie, HS Student

- Isabelle Mischa Setyabudi, HS Student

- Nadya Valerie Onggo, HS Student

- Sophie Keira Santoso, HS Student

for achieving 1st place in the Youth Innovation Challenge.

"The Youth Innovation Challenge was a significant event that will remain memorable to us. During the event, our team had the opportunity to experience what it felt like to become young entrepreneurial innovators. This event required us as a team to come up with an idea of an innovation that was sustainable and beneficial to solve our country's problem; plastic pollution in Indonesia. Over the years, plastic has been used oftenly in the industrial world, and communities have been working together to try to overcome it. We ended up with the idea of recyclable vending machines. Our idea worked so that people would be able to either get snacks, money, etc from the vending machines in exchange for types of plastics; plastic bottles, wrappers, etc.

Throughout this process, we faced some challenges, including time management, developing skills to create the product, and fulfilling the product requirements. We had zero experience in creating an innovation, especially one that could solve Indonesia’s problems, but with the support and help from each other we were able to keep going and not give up. The challenges we faced were building blocks to a new start of the development of a new skill."

Once again, congratulations everyone!