Building Big Ideas

T3 teamed up with TechRadar and Honor to help foster the next great tech idea, with a series of inspiring forums and £10,000 of funding for a prize-winning concept

This was a competition with a life-changing prize. Back in July, we partnered with TechRadar and Honor to launch a competition where we asked students and recent graduates to come up with a brilliant tech idea, with a first prize of £10,000.

The competition was part of our Tech Innovation for the Future project, which included events in Newcastle and London hosting innovative thinkers, and around 100 thought-provoking articles posted to our innovation hub at T3.com.

For the competition, we were looking for ideas for apps, software services and hardware with the potential to solve real-life problems and improve people’s lives.

The response to our competition was fantastic, with entries flooding in from all over the country, which made for some lively discussions on the judging panel made up of journalists from T3 and TechRadar.

We chose the T3 Awards, which were held at the Ministry of Sound on 27 September, as the venue to announce the competition winner and two runners-up, so that as well as picking up a massive cheque, the winners could enjoy entertainment from DJ Yoda and Johnny Borrell, who played at the event.In second place was Andrew Garbett with ThinkActive.io. ThinkActive uses inexpensive activity trackers and pseudonymous avatars to help 8-11 year olds keep fit while learning about data privacy at the same time.