2025-26 Shortlist
The ISD2025-26 Awards resulted in some excellent concepts and ideas. The following entries achieved Awards:
Brief A
Inclusive products to support the Motor Activities Training Programme (MATP), Special Olympics training sessions.
- Gold Award: Golf Mat: Individual Entry: Sophie Francis.
- Silver Award: DOT-S Robotic Companion, Group Entry: Aidan Mathieson, Atilla Yusuf, Robin Healy.
Brief C
Entry-level athlete training aid for a paralympic sport. Para Sport Loughborough.
- Silver Award: ROW-ROW: A Balance Training Seat for Paralympic Rowing: Group Entry: Zuoping Guan, Willow Tan, Ling Qi, Shaopeng Chen, Jiahao Lin.
- Bronze Award: Adaptive Paraclimbing Assist and Harness System: Group entry: Jingwei Yu, Youan Guan, Denzel Jen, Xinyu Lyu, Jiayu Wu.
- Bronze Award: RimLink: Group Entry: Abishek Senthil Kumar, Elif Tunca, Mingxin Zhang, Shiyang Wang, Ruixuan Zhang.
Brief D
Accessories for adapted cycling. Grampian Inclusive Cycling Bothies.
- Gold Award: FreeWheel - Adaptive Braking for Inclusive Cycling: Group Entry: Will Baxter, Wei-Sheng Tu, Ying Teng, Alexander Crasneanscki, Om Shah.
- Gold Award: BrakEase: Group Entry: Dengfeng Zhu, Juntao Hong, Xizhi Wang, Yuxue Ni, Yuhan Cao.
Brief F
Celebration of Sport (Image). Loughborough Sport.
- Bronze Award: Celebration of Sport!: Individual Entry: Evelyn Brown.
Public Vote:
Gold Award: Celebration of Sport!: Individual Entry: Evelyn Brown.
All Judges commented on how innovative the concepts and designs were and they addressed real need.
Well done to all!