Parow High School matric pupil Lukusa Tshizubu, left, with Eskom’s chief executive Dan Marokane. Picture: Eskom.
Parow High School matric pupil Lukusa Tshizubu won the award for Best Energy Project at the Eskom Expo International Science Fair, an expo for bright young scientists that was held in Gauteng.
He represented the Stellenbosch region in the Western Cape, according to Eskom.
A range of prizes, including full bursaries, cash, laptops and tablet computers, were awarded to top-performing innovators at the expo, held in the Convention Centre at Emperor’s Palace in Kempton Park from Monday September 23 to Friday September 27.
The sponsor, Eskom, awarded four special awards of R10 000 in cash to the Best Female, Best Development, Best Energy and Best Innovation projects.
According to Eskom, the goal of Tshizubu’s project was to build a “GreenHauler” truck “designed to use renewable energy and innovative on-site debris processing for efficient construction debris management”.