Pitch the Future Challenges
Meet Colin Furze. Our host of Pitch the Future who has a passion for inventing things, especially in the STEM field. See how he takes on one of the challenges himself and builds a wind and solar-powered tumble dryer.
Pitch the Future is an all-new competition that challenges Shell Eco-marathon student teams from around the world to use their STEM skills to tackle four real-world energy challenges.
Scroll down to find out more about each of the challenges, read about the teams, explore their incredible ideas in response to these real world challenges, and click through to vote for your favourite winning idea.
Intro to Challenges: Pitch the Future
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Title: Intro to Challenges: Pitch the Future
Duration: 0:59 minutes
Description:
YouTuber and inventor Colin Furze introduces the three Shell Pitch the Future challenges.
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Interview footage of Colin Furze standing with outstretched arms speaking into the camera.
Colin Furze
Let’s get this show on the road!
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Colourful confetti flies around Colin. A series of blue and yellow animated lines appear behind him.
Colin Furze
I’m Colin Furze, YouTuber and inventor.
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COLIN FURZE
YOUTUBER & INVENTOR
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Colourful Pitch the Future title card with Shell pecten logo at the top and race car on the left.
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PITCH THE FUTURE
#MakeTheFuture
Colin Furze
And welcome to Pitch the Future where we get some of the brightest minds, our Shell Eco Marathon students, to help out in solving real world challenges.
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Colin speaks into the camera. Animations pop up on-screen around Colin of a pencil, atom, lightbulb, brain, graduate cap and gears. Then a series of coloured animated circular and dotted lines appear behind him.
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Animation of yellow and blue turning gears with on-screen text and Shell pecten logo.
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DECARBONIZING THE HOME
Shell ENERGY
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Colin speaks into the camera. Top right an embedded animation of homes and a finger flicking a light switch and a clock.
Colin Furze
The first challenge is to reduce CO2 emissions in the home, but without disrupting customers’ everyday comforts.
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Colin drinks from a white mug with Furze logo on it.
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Colourful animation of moving objects with text centre-screen and a white arrow at the bottom followed by the Microsoft logo.
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TRACKING AND REDUCING VEHICLE CO2 EMISSIONS
Microsoft
Colin Furze
The next task is to design a system which can be fitted into a car that tracks and shares CO2 emissions.
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Colin speaks into the camera. Top right an embedded animation of a car and a tracking device.
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Colourful animation with Shell pecten logo and on-screen text.
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DECARBONIZING ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT
Shell Lubricants
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Colin speaks into the camera. Top right an embedded animation of a home and approaching freight vehicle. A parcel is placed on the doorstep after which the vehicle drives off.
Colin Furze
The third task is to create a concept which helps decarbonise road freight transport, but without compromising customer expectations, because we still want our packages on time.
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Colourful animation with Shell pecten logo and charge icon and on-screen text.
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY CHARGING
Shell Recharge
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Colin speaks into the camera. Top right an embedded animation of a compass, inside it a car driving on a road. The word STOPS next to the car.
Colin Furze
And the final task is to plan an all-electric drive with the fewest amount of stops, the best optimised battery, and in the fastest possible time.
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Colin speaks into the camera. A series of white and yellow animated circular lines appear behind him.
Colin Furze
For full details on all things Pitch the Future, visit MakeTheFuture.Shell/Pitch.
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MakeTheFuture.Shell/Pitch
#ShellEcoMarathon
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Shell Pecten centred on a white background with text at the bottom as displayed below.
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© Shell International 2020
Decarbonising the Home with Shell Energy
In this challenge students will develop an innovative concept to help lower energy use in the home, without compromising people’s comfort or convenience.
Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions from Vehicles with Microsoft
In line with Microsoft’s 2030 carbon negative ambition, the challenge is to design a prototype for tracking passenger vehicle CO2 emissions to help reduce driving emissions.
Decarbonising Road Freight Transport with Shell Lubricants
Participating teams will develop an innovative concept that helps decarbonise road freight transport without compromising customer expectations of distribution and delivery.
Electric Vehicles and Long-Distance Travels with Shell Recharge
With electric vehicles usage growing, students will plan an all-electric drive relevant to their region, showing how current battery technology can be optimised.
Digital Literacy Award with Adobe
A special prize which all teams using Adobe Creative Cloud are entered into, recognising creative submissions that exemplify digital literacy skills.
Pitch the Future Homepage
Learn all about this virtual competition, where student teams help tackle society’s most pressing energy challenges.
Find out which Shell Eco-marathon teams won the Pitch the Future challenges with their innovative ideas and watch the virtual awards ceremony.