James Dyson Award 2025 seeks groundbreaking inventions from young engineers and scientists
12 March 2025
Calling young inventors
The James Dyson Award, an international student design and engineering competition, opens for submissions today to its 2025 programme in 28 countries and regions. From everyday challenges to the world’s most pressing issues, the Award calls for current or recent students to submit problem-solving ideas that could make a real difference to people’s lives.
Since it was established in 2005, the James Dyson Award has supported more than 400 student inventions with more than S$1.6m in prize money and a global platform. Those who progress to the final stages and are selected by James Dyson as the global winners will claim a prize of S$50,700 and a chance to gain international media exposure, providing a springboard to commercialise their inventions.
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Previous winners
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Previous winners include airXeed Radiosonde, a reusable radiosonde tackling the amount of e-waste created by current, single-use radiosondes on the market. Invented by Shane Kyi Hla Win and Danial Sufiyan Bin Shaiful from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the innovative device was selected by Sir James as the 2024 Global Sustainability Winner. With their prize money, the team intends to conduct more testing overseas to further improve their design, and work with manufacturers to make airXeed Raadiosonde a reality.
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Singapore National Runner-up Koh Bei Ning has successfully commercialised her invention Rollo (previously submitted as Rollerball Itch Relief), since entering the competition in 2022. Boosted by the publicity received from her win, the pocket-sized itch reliever sold out within 10 minutes in a round of online sales. This year, Bei Ning is set to manufacture a new batch of Rollo, and will work to improve its current design based on feedback received from customers.
Other past Global Winners include mOm incubators, a low-cost, inflatable incubator to provide flexibility to caring for newborns in less developed areas. Invented by James Roberts, Product Design & Technology graduate from Loughborough University in the UK, mOm has gone on to support over 10,000 patients, and continues to expand its operations worldwide, including in conflict areas such as Ukraine.
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“I started the James Dyson Award 20 years ago with the mission to inspire and support the next generation of design engineers. The brilliant ideas we’ve seen since then prove that young people are passionate about providing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, using design, engineering and technology – in medicine, the environment and much more. I look forward to discovering what inventions will be put forward this year – good luck!”
Sir James Dyson, Founder of Dyson
How to enter
Entries can now be submitted through an online application form via the James Dyson Award website. The deadline to apply is midnight on 16th July 2025.
Shortlisted entries in each participating country or region will then be evaluated by national judging panels with expertise across design and engineering, based on functionality, design process, differentiation, and commercial viability.
The National Winners, selected by these judging panels and each winning a S$8,400 prize, will be announced on 10th September, the Global Top 20 Shortlist, selected by Dyson Engineers, on 15th October, and the Global Winners, selected by James Dyson, on 5th November.
Further FAQs can be found on the James Dyson Award wesbite.
Lydia Zul
Email: lydia.zul@dyson.com