Medal Requirements
Bronze Medal
Silver Medal
Gold Medal
- Competition Deliverables
- Attributions
- Project Description
- Project contribution
All the mandatory Competition Deliverables were submitted!
A big thank you to all those who helped Espress'EAU during the whole competition!
We started from a very local problem, the presence of pesticides in water in Switzerland, and thought about a possible solution for an easy detection.
Our Hardware team developed low-cost and DIY parts that every future team could use. Do you need to build a magnetic stirrer? Does your project need a fluorescence or OD600 sensor? Here!
- Engineering success
- Collaborations
- Human Practices
- Proposed implementation
4 yeast strains were successfully engineered to report the presence of contaminants in water. The hardware components were also tested and showed that they were usable for our device.
Even during a pandemic, we decided to meet-up with the UZurich and UNILausanne teams. Safety distances and masks were mandatory for our Swiss meet-up on 10-11 of September.
During the project, we contacted several stakeholders to get informed about their needs.
Espress'EAU was conceived in a way that would allow an easy implementation in real-life cases. We imagined a delivery system that would allow our users to safely analyze their water samples without having to take care of waste management.
- Integrated Human Practices
- Proof of Concept
- Excellence in another area
Human Practices were the conducting thread of the whole project. Several stakeholders commented and shaped our ideas for Espress'EAU in order to meet the needs of our potential users.
We proved that some deletion strains growth behaviours are influenced by the presence of pesticides. A fluorescent inducible reporter strain was engineered. On the hardware side, it was showed that freeze-dried yeast can be used and that its growth can be monitored by our device.
Hardware! This part of the project is essential to exploit what has been done in the wet lab.
