Congratulations to our winners!  

Winners of The Atherton Award receive a trophy, certificate, investment, and mentoring time. You'll also get access to a private Slack group that links you with the national community of winners. In this private space you'll get access to workshops and the chance to connect with other female entrepreneurs from other schools and years.

 

Didn't win the award? That's ok. The entrepreneurial path is filled with rejection and people saying no to you. The secret is to get back up and try again. Whilst listening and learning is key to improving as a founder and leader, never let anyone tell you what you can't do. You are capable of anything you set your mind to, and with a little luck and the right timing, what started as a small idea in your bedroom could end up changing the world. 

 

Class of 2024  

School Name Location Winner Winning Project
Benenden UK Imaan K.
Initiative: who set up with her family a non-profit in India. Hosting a sporting event (to encourage young girls into sport and for all children to recognise sporting talents that are not usually applauded and celebrated.)
LEH UK Kiara P. Product: for people with non-verbal autism to communicate how they are feeling.
Wycombe Abbey UK Sofia C.
Product: coded an app (app store) teaching practical maths such as loan repayments, petrol pump prices, interest rates, stamp duty, and mortgage costs. Already has her first corporate client, Barking and Dagenham College.
Henrietta Barnet School UK Ria S. STEM Skills: completed an accounting course and a python course
(New) Marymount NYC USA Brianna F. Initiative: industrial design iterations for the New York public transport system to streamline services in rush hour all whilst improving revenue for the network.
(New) Marlborough LA USA Penelope P. Initiative: Set up a by-the-minute tutoring service, running a two pilots with students from 22 colleges
City of London School for Girls UK Yunshu Y. Initiative: Started a small stationary business.
Belvedere UK Rosie B. Product: Started a jewellery and lash business whose promotional videos have gone viral (450k views) and ships all over the UK
RHS Bath UK Kay Y.
Product: manufactured her own toys, with more than 500 orders shipped to Hong Kong, UK, USA, Taiwan, Singapore, Mainland China and Thailand and over 400 reviews. All this has brought in a profit of £2k.
Croydon High UK Riya S.
Product: Designed a water-generating bottle that condenses water vapour into clean water, to ensure the basic human right of clean drinking water is met. Took two STEM courses with the Open University to learn about the engineering behind it.
Wimbledon High UK Sreemedha S. Product: Set up a business selling candles, from which 50% of profits go to a charity in India.
Norwich High UK Megan A. & Estelle W.
Initiative: Set up a lunchtime club at school to encourage girls to get into engineering and teach them some fundamentals. They envision scaling across the GDST and partnering with engineering firms.
Putney High UK Alisa V. Product: Built a "find it" app, reuniting students with lost property, powered by near field communication technology.
(New) Sheffield UK Saba M. Product: Built an app to improve the memory of those with dementia. Saba would like to use the funding to learn more about UX.
Howell's UK Daisy J. Product: Coded an ML-powered website that optimizes energy usage in the home.
South Hampstead High School UK Scarlett M.
Product: designed and coded an interactive satellite simulation to help physics students understand centripetal forces and the link between main body planet mass, satellite velocity and orbital radius.
Northwood UK Layla O. Product: Built a game that detects users' carbon footprint and their actions affect the virtual world (creating virtual forest fires, poor harvests...)
Oxford High UK Anousha N. Product: Developed a hybrid portable solar-powered water purification system. Compact and easily transportable, for remote or disaster-stricken areas, where clean water is hard to find.
(New) Le Sante Union Catholic School UK Klea N. Product: Coded an app that advises people on skincare

 

Class of 2023 

Rebecca T. Wycombe Abbey Designed a Product: Hardware prototype which recycles lost heat energy from fridges
Willow G. Lady Eleanor Holles (LEH) Designed a Product: Compostable shoe made from biopolymers
Saanvi D. Henrietta Barnett Improved STEM Skills: Completed MIT Entrepreneurship course
Sunniva K., Kara, Honor, Olivia, Georgia, Ella, Katie Benenden Designed a Product: Underwear company that achieved £2,000+ in profit
Anna W. City of London School for Girls Started a Business: Built a website teaching coding with 2,000+ users
Charlotte H. Putney High Started a Business: Sold ergonomically designed bag made from offcuts
Sri Akshata T. Croydon High Improved STEM Skills: Harvard CS50 Coding course
Cassia M. Wimbledon High Started a Business: Started a fashion brand upcycling fast fashion
Anusha U. Norwich High Started a Business: Coded a website to teach maths formulas in a fun virtual environment
Charlotte H. Howell's Improved STEM Skills: Learned Javascript and used it to create revision games
Mira B. South Hampstead High Started a Business: Built an AI tool to curate Youtube video results
Kadisha W. Belvedere Academy Started a Business: Created and sold a jewelry range
Sophie C. Bath High Started a Business: Started a refillery from home, to reduce neighbours' plastic packaging
Rhea C. Northwood High Started a Business: Created an e-marketplace for purchasing and exchanging second-hand school material
Jennifer Z. Oxford High Designed a Product: Iterations of a coaster that detects if a drink has been spiked

Class of 2022 

Benenden & Colchester High School for Girls 

Class of 2021

Fara B., Benenden

Started a Non-Profit: STEM in Africa, which aims to encourage and galvanise more young African students, primarily females by, organising events, hosting speakers, sponsoring children and more. In 2020, they hosted a science fair for 70 disadvantaged children. Since winning the award, they've hosted a summer camp of masterclasses in Lagos for which they raised 5million Naira. Now they are building a science hub in Lagos from repurposed plastic bottles, for their students to be innovative and collaborate.