James Dyson Award 2025 welcomes inventions from young innovators

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — The James Dyson Award, an international student design and engineering competition, opens for submissions to its 2025 program in 28 countries and regions. 

Established in 2005, it supported over 400 student inventions with over ₱70 million in prize money and global media exposure.

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These include past winners from the Philippines like Joseph Aristotle De Leon, who was the 2024 Philippine National Winner.

He’s a Manufacturing Engineering student at De La Salle University-Manila who developed the Resistivity Acquisition and Monitoring of the Underground (RAMUN).

It’s a real-time subterranean system that tracks flooding and groundwater mismanagement.

Nowadays, he’s refining RAMUN for deployment in cities worldwide. 

Jeremy De Leon won the James Dyson Award in 2023 for his portable keychain microscope, the Make-roscope.

The device provides any smartphone or tablet with 125x zoom, making science more accessible to students without laboratory equipment.

Nowadays, the engineering student at Mapúa is expanding the Make-roscope’s reach, allowing more students to explore the wonders of science.

Learn more about the Make-roscope here.

Last but not least, Emmanuelle Pangilinan and Jason Pechardo earned recognition as part of the 2022 James Dyson Award International Top 20.

The UP Diliman students invented the ‘Brakong,’ a lightweight and breathable external breast prosthesis for breast cancer survivors. 

They developed it using baking, an aquatic plant with natural antimicrobial properties.

This green solution keeps the prosthesis clean while minimizing weight for daily use.

Moreover, its bio-based design promotes circular sustainability, reducing waste with its recyclability. 

If you’d like to join, submit your entry at the James Dyson Award website.

The deadline is on July 16, 2025 at midnight. 

James Dyson, the founder of Dyson, said:

“I look forward to discovering what inventions will be put forward this year. Good luck!”