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Meet the winners of the Matthew Boulton School's Challenge. A competition where the aim was for school children to come up with an invention inspired by the great man himself. The idea to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Boulton's death.

I've blogged before about the achievement's of Matthew Boulton and as a judge I wanted to see some of his inspiration, commercial savvy and artistic style in the presentations.

There were plenty of good ideas, prototypes and even a working model of various gadgets. The winners were a team from King's Norton Boys' School with a paper-recycling machine for the home. Since Boulton himself invented one of the world's first copying machines he would have appreciated this idea.

I also want to mention one of the runners up, Four Dwellings School with their idea to generate power from the fat extracted during liposuction. I think with a bit more development there might be something in this. Hopefully next year we can have a bit of number crunching and some lab work to see if the idea has potential. Though I think it might be easier to experiment on lard rather than the by products of liposuction on people!

The aim is for this event to become an annual event. Encouraging school children from across the region to think like Matthew Boulton. Personally I believe if he was alive today he would certainly be working with computers. Quite likely finding ways to make paying for online content like newspapers as easy as possible.

Thanks to for organising the event and to for the pictures. Congratulations to all those schools who took part.

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