SJI's Team Midas Clinches Most Sustainable Project Award at Young Trailblazer's Competition 2023
1 May 2023
Team Midas built ResQ Foods, an app that flags supermarket food nearing expiry. Read how it won the Most Sustainable award.
SJI's Team Midas -Wah Wen Hu, Addison (MN518), Lim Yee Kai, Jason (MN518), Wong Kei Hoi Rico (MN517) and Pandi Balaji Bavaesh (LE508) - clinched the Most Sustainable project award at the Young Trailblazer's Competition (YTC) 2023, making it one of the top 5 teams in the competition.
The YTC is an innovation competition based on the 6 pillars of the ForwardSG vision where students are tasked with solving real world problems as social entrepreneurs. The problem statement this year was to spark change towards sustainability on a personal level.
To tackle this issue, Team Midas, one of the 4 from SJI, focused on food sustainability for supermarkets, where they created a cutting-edge Business-to-Consumer (B2C) app that notifies shoppers on deals and bundles regarding ugly foods and foods nearing the expiry date. Their app, ResQ Foods, works in real time with supermarkets to save a portion of the 20,000 tonnes of food waste that are generated each year. The team won the Most Sustainable project award after completing several elevator pitches and feedback from various stakeholders.