PA Raspberry Pi Awards 2025: Creating a positive human future

Creating a positive human future sits at the core of PA’s ethos, serving as a North Star for our work with clients.

PA’s Raspberry Pi Competition is a perfect example of creating a positive human future. So, this year, we asked teams to focus on just that, with a range of sub-categories to choose from. The Competition encourages long-term thinking, empowering young innovators to combine creativity and ingenuity to develop solutions to shape a better future.

Over 250 schools from across the country engaged with the competition, and 45 brilliant inventions were submitted. Our Competition partners Rentokil Initial, Anglia Ruskin University, and Digital Skills for Defence provided coaching for the teams, and Google Cloud hosted and supported our Awards Day. Our internal judges played a crucial role, assessing every team’s entry and providing feedback, and deciding on the sixteen finalist teams who presented their inventions to leaders from across the private and public sectors on Awards Day, which this year took place at Google’s London HQ.

Celebrating ingenuity at our awards day

Our awards day gave finalists the opportunity to show off their hard work to judges and guests from leading organisations. For each of the four age categories, two awards were up for grabs. Firstly, the Innovation Award, which celebrates excellent technical skills and delivery. Secondly, the Inspiration Award recognises teams for their endeavour and achievement. Each winning team received a £1,000 prize for their school. New for this year, we also introduced a ‘People’s Choice’ award – the Ingenuity Award – which attendees voted for on the day. The Ingenuity Award winners received prizes from Competition partner Google Cloud.

Hosted by TV presenter Fran Scott, the awards ceremony kicked off with an on-stage panel discussion. Mark Smith, CEO of ADA, the National College for Digital Skills, discussed how ADA is helping students to apply STEM skills to make a difference in the world. Mivy James, Chief Technology Officer of Defence Digital, Ministry of Defence, talked about the importance of diversity of thought in creating a positive human future, while Jo Wickremasinghe, Chief Product and Technology Officer, BPP Education, discussed how to empower young people to consider STEM careers.

Then, with the help of our judges, the winners for each age category award were announced. All finalists took home trophies to celebrate their achievement in reaching the final.

Inspiration Award winners

Years 4-6 winners: Walwayne Coders, Walwayne Court School

The invention detects rising sea levels and sends alerts when an increase is sensed. The prototype uses an LED, water sensor, and a cup of water to flag increases.

Years 7-9 winners: SHATHAM, Kelvin Hall School

EMono is an educational app designed to raise awareness about endangered species, and guide actions that contribute to their preservation.

Years 10-11 winners: RPHM – Raspberry Pi Health Monitor, Richard Hale School

The invention measures heart rate, temperature, and blood pressure. This project aims to help people to self-manage their care, relieving the strain on hospitals.

Years 12-13 winners: HosPiTallis, Thomas Tallis School

Created for use in children’s oncology hospitals, this tracker helps doctors and nurses monitor medicine intake, mood, upcoming appointments, reminders for medicine, and more.

Innovation Award winners

Years 4-6 winners: Cantref Coders, Cantref Primary School

The Barcode Box is designed to support people to access information about the medicines they take, and to make planet positive choices about the products they buy.

Years 7-9 winners: LifeFlow, Fulford School

LifeFlow is an integrated healthcare management system designed to give detailed insights to carers, and to give residents the most high-quality care possible, supporting independence.

Years 10-11 winners: PharmaPoint, The Blue Coat School

This prescription pick-up locker system integrates three components – an admin page, user app and physical locker – to allow those with less access to pharmacies to obtain prescriptions securely.

Years 12-13 winners: R2-Pi2, Greenford High School

Designed to support individuals living with memory difficulties including dementia, this invention uses face and voice recognition technology to help individuals retain and recall important details about the people in their lives.

Ingenuity Award winners

Carbon Raspberries, King Edward’s Junior School, Bath

This project raises awareness about the carbon footprint of schools and businesses, and the impact this has on the environment and sustainability.

Congratulations to all of the future innovators who took part in the Competition.

PA and the Raspberry Pi competition

PA’s purpose is bringing ingenuity to life to build a positive human future, and is the lighthouse guiding what we do, how we do it and, most importantly, why we do it. We created the Raspberry Pi competition to give young people, between the ages of 8 and 18, the opportunity to work together to invent products that have a positive impact on their communities, and society as a whole. This reflects our goal of creating ground-breaking innovations that really do make the world a better, healthier and safer place. Recent examples include accelerating access to life-changing therapies and developing a low-cost approach to producing sustainable packaging at our Global Innovation and Technology Centre.