b'10 Partner News Winter 2020AcademicWarwick students shortlisted for national engineering awardStudents from University of Warwick havemounted support kit that helps disabled been shortlisted in a nationwide award,musicians to hold an instrument if they only Engineering For Access, to find the nexthave the use of one hand. greatest innovation in disability products. Archie, who spent his earlier years in The annual award, run by personal injuryScotland before moving to Warwick for his specialists Claims.co.uk and productdegree, said that music has always been innovation specialists Bang Creations,a huge part of his life. His design was tasked undergraduate engineers from allparticularly inspired by OHMI, a charity disciplines across the country with creatingwhich helps those with limited mobility to a product designed to aid people livingget involved in music.with a disability. Students were able to choose the disability they wanted to designUpon receiving the email, I was ecstatic, for, with other entries tackling epilepsy andhe said. I had faith in my project, and I deafness. In return they get the chance ofhoped that I had clearly communicated winning 5,000 towards the cost of gettingwhy this project addressed something so their product made.personal.Ella BrayElla Bray, 21, an undergraduate EngineeringTo be given the opportunity to see this student at University of Warwick, enteredpossibly manifest itself proved that music the award with her design for a wheelchairshould be considered as a fundamental, wheel cleaner, specifically aimed atsomething we should all have access to.schoolchildren. You can find more details about Ella, originally from Kent, said that herArchie and Ellas entry designs at:design was inspired by a visit to local school, where a teacher explained thatclaims.co.uk/engineering-for-access/this type of device would be importantengineering-for-access-2020-shortlist-in helping disabled children have greaterarchie-campbellindependence: It could really benefit the pupils of the school I visited, as well asclaims.co.uk/engineering-for-access/many others in multiple walks of life. engineering-for-access-2020-shortlist-ella-brayAnother undergraduate Engineering student at University of Warwick, Archie Campbell, 20, entered the award with a body- Archie Campbell'