2019 | Gold Innergy Award
Turning a phone into scientific equipment for joyful learning
This award captures a beautifully simple idea: students already carry powerful sensors. When those sensors become part of a physics investigation, learning becomes personal, measurable, and memorable.
Why This Award Matters
This award captures a beautifully simple idea: students already carry powerful sensors. When those sensors become part of a physics investigation, learning becomes personal, measurable, and memorable. The deeper achievement is not just the prize. It is the design habit behind the work: start from a real classroom problem, build something teachers and students can use, and keep improving it until the technology helps thinking become visible.
Strengths Worth Noticing
- Connects abstract physics concepts to data from a device students already know.
- Makes inquiry portable: acceleration, sound, light, and motion can be investigated beyond the lab bench.
- Encourages students to ask better questions because the measurement tool is in their hands.
Alignment to EdTech Masterplan 2030
The EdTech Masterplan 2030 calls for technology-transformed learning, stronger use of AI and digital tools, and a student-centred approach to teaching and learning. This award connects to that direction in three practical ways:
- Enhances learning through technology that is immediate, authentic, and experiment-ready.
- Develops digital literacy by turning consumer devices into scientific instruments.
- Supports student ownership because learners can collect, interpret, and discuss their own data.
Classroom Conversation Starter
Ask a teacher team: what part of this award can be made smaller and used next week? A simulation, a sensor task, a scaffolded SLS activity, an automation script, or an AI-supported manipulative becomes powerful when it is attached to a clear learning question.