We are pleased to celebrate the winners of our first Cambridge IGCSE Learner Award for Action on Climate Change 2023. The award is an opportunity for Cambridge students to show the world their climate change initiatives and inspire others to tackle one of the world’s most critical humanitarian crises. Learners participated in the competition by submitting a short video to highlight the work that they’ve done to combat the climate emergency.
Anaya Shabi and her teammates Anwita Sethi, Kiana Kamdar and Kritika Tripathy from Global Indian International School in Singapore gained the overall regional award with their winning submission focused on the recycling of old school uniforms to manufacture furniture.
The members of team ‘Green Threads’ shared their journey to arrive at the perfect business model centred around sustainability; “Our main focus was ensuring the scalability and longevity of the idea. While brainstorming, we realised that clothes are something worn and used by everyone but there aren’t many ways to recycle clothes. To ensure that our vision would be possible, we had to make a prototype to see our idea come to life. We were somewhat nervous about the proportions of the chair and whether it would be able to stand and take weight. Fortunately, all of our efforts reaped great results.”
“We are thrilled and very grateful to have gotten this platform to share our idea, even more so to be recognised and win this competition. This achievement motivates us to continue working towards our idea of converting old textile waste to chairs. We are also relieved that all our efforts and the support from our teacher has yielded such great results, and we hope to continue working on the mission of Green Threads.”
The leaders of Global Indian International School in Singapore shared how proud they are of their students for coming up with such a wonderful idea; “the Cambridge IGCSE climate change award has provided our school with an amazing platform to showcase the talent and creativity of our students and to take a closer step towards trying to solve the most concerning issue of today, that is climate change.”
“Our school is committed towards sustainability goals and we are looking forward to more opportunities to inspire our students to take action to save the planet and work towards a better future for the human race.”
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