WomEng Alumni Wins Falling Walls Lab Johannesburg
Breaking The Wall of Water Leakages
Congratulations to WomEng Alumni, Adivhaho Mphaphuli for winning Falling Walls Lab Johannesburg!
On Thursday, 02 September, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in partnership with the University of Johannesburg and supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in South Africa, hosted the virtual Falling Walls Lab Johannesburg event.
The Falling Walls Foundation founded the Falling Walls Lab in 2011 to promote exceptional ideas and connect early-career innovators, creators and visionaries on a global level. Participants are given the opportunity to pitch their idea in three minutes to a jury of experts from academia, business, and state organisations.
The 2021 event consisted of 13 finalists who pitched their ground-breaking ideas to an esteemed jury consisting of representation from the University of Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), German Embassy in Pretoria, South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) and German multinational companies based in South Africa which include Robert Bosch (Pty) Ltd, Siemens, ThyssenKrupp and FESTO Didactic.
The winner of the Falling Walls Lab Johannesburg event was Ms Adivhaho Mphaphuli whose pitch focused on "Breaking The Wall of Water Leakages". In sharing her excitement with WomEng, Ms. Adivhaho noted, “As a WomEng Southern Africa Fellowship Alumnus, Mentor and Evaluator, I must say WomEng is the best platform to learn more, grow and engage. The Innovation module definitely helped me and played a huge role here. I will be representing South Africa in Berlin, Germany. I'm so excited and grateful. Thank you!”
Ms Mphaphuli will now be representing South Africa at the global Falling Walls Lab conference in Berlin, Germany in November. She will be competing against the winners from the Falling Walls Lab events that have taken place globally.
Info source: University of Johannesburg
