Kilmarnock Academy equalled their best performance in the Tom Hunter Challenge this year. Our team of Scott Mains, Jack Mains and Craig Denim achieved joint 2nd in the recent Tom Hunter Challenge with their product Doggy Doo – an electronic dog bag dispenser designed to cut down to dog waste in public areas. Their reward was a prize of £1,500 and some excellent feedback from the judges on their presentation.  

The winning idea was from an S6 group at St Josephs was for a UV band which measures exposure to the sun in order to reduce levels of skin cancer in the long run. Despite being up against older opposition and some young enterprise projects, the team remained calm and done the school proud!