The inventors of a portable menstrual cup cleaning case win a national engineering competition.
Bristol graduates Kira Goode and Monica Wai, both 24, won a contest that was held by the Royal Academy of Engineering.The competition invited the public to submit ideas that make life more sustainable.
Ms Goode and Ms Wai, from Oxford, invented the case, which makes the menstrual cup sterilisation process quicker and more discreet.She congratulated the winners, adding that their invention was "smart, practical and really innovative".Dr Hayaatun Sillem, chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: "It's been brilliant to see such creative and original ideas for sustainable inventions and to have discovered our three every-day engineer finalists.
"There has never been a more urgent need for engineering expertise to provide practical solutions and help to build a sustainable future."
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