BAE apprentices win competition to develop technology to help injured military personnel

A team of 10 apprentices from BAE Systems Maritime Services in Portsmouth have won a nationwide competition to design new technology in the Apprentice Innovation Challenge.
Apprentice Innovation Challenge winners 

Picture: Rob ClaytonApprentice Innovation Challenge winners 

Picture: Rob Clayton
Apprentice Innovation Challenge winners Picture: Rob Clayton

Eight teams from across BAE Systems were asked to create an improved grabber device to help patients with limited mobility to pick-up out of reach objects.

The teams were given nine months to plan, design, create and test their end products, before they were presented to a panel of judges and engineering experts.

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Team Portsmouth designed their winning prototype to a strict budget and asked patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, to test out the ‘Stag Grab’

Lewis Hall, a member of the team said: ‘As a team we’re amazed because there was such strong, clever and well-thought out competition.

‘We’re truly humbled and utterly shocked that the judges decided we were the winning team.’

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