INNOKOULU



Aino Erkinaro (2nd grade)
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2003 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Oulunsuu School Oulu Y-shaped toothbrush that brushes both sides of the teeth at the same time
Akseli Ketola
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2005 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Ruosniemi School Traffic sign visible in the dark. There is a light inside the traffic sign. The sign is plastic coated so that no water gets inside.
Anne Hellsten and Katja Muhonen
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2007 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize South Karelia Vocational College Lappeenranta The project "Stimulating activities as part of rehabilitation care" explains the significance of stimulating activities in rehabilitation. This final project is especially meritorious thanks to its inventive and creative application to practice. The topical theme and creativity requirements for practical nurses have been understood in an excellent way in this project as part of approach to rehabilitation work.
Annika Rosendahl, 7th grade
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2001 Comprehensive School Category 1st prize (3,000 Finnish marks) Arppe School Kitee Idea about a wrist watch functioning with the aid of the pulse
Anssi Roiha, 1st grade
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2002 High school category Honourable Mention Palokka High School Jyväskylä Drawing pin remover
Arno Munnukka
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2005 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Pyynikki Institute The final project describes an autonomous robot that enables the production of service solutions for specific needs. This small robot is able to move in narrow ventilation ducts and gathers information on the need for repair and maintenance by using its ‘senses of touch, hearing and sight’. As soon as the robot is productised and commercialised, it will have a bright future.
Arppe School
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2001 Comprehensive School Category Honourable Mention Arppe School Kitee, Finland Honourable mention for the most active participation in the INNOSCHOOL event
Eveliina Salo
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2006 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize North Karelia College A traditional bridal box that has been re-designed to combine traditions, practicality and modern design. This versatile piece of furniture can also be used as a coffee table and is ready for serial production.
Henri Flinkman, (1st grade)
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2002 Comprehensive School Category 1st prize (600 euros) Pohjanlampi School Jyväskylä Double pedestrian crossing
Iida Piirainen, Anne Ruohoniemi, Eemeli Ilomäki, Roosa Piirainen, Matti Karjalainen, Pekka Kangasniemi, Krista Lahti and Maiju Mäki-Kihniä, Saku-Petteri Salmi and Petteri Mäntykoski
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2004 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Kihniä School Escape slide for classrooms, equipment to improve physical condition, prevention of bullying, snack for pupils in the lower forms
Jaakko Lindholm
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2004 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Kuru Institute of Forestry Wind power engine borne by a concrete element
Jari Ryönänkoski (KO 1)
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2003 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Oulu College of Culture and Technology Oulu Anti-theft alarm where an alarm device, for example in a hand bag, is activated by using a remote control
Jarko Törmänen
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2006 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize North Karelia College Learn and practice ashtanga yoga by using an animated program. The movements of the human figure in the animation have been created using Motion Capture technology where the movement and motion paths of a real person is recorded and an animated figure is then added to them. The computer animation gives easy, safe and detailed yoga instructions. A program of this kind has not been used before.
Jenni Lampinen
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2007 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize South Karelia Vocational College Taipalsaari In the project "Trial runs with ceramic doctor blades in a coating machine", the student shows both a great interest in developing the production processes and initiative to tackle this challenging subject. The aim of the trial runs was to find out if reject rate could be reduced and if an even quality could be obtained faster by using ceramic blades.
Jenni Saarinen
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2006 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize North Karelia College The product innovation is a coat for persons who even with an assistant have difficulty in putting on a coat. The coat is made of two separate parts. It is therefore easy for the assistant to separately put each part on the client. In respect of clothes for a disabled or sick person, special attention must be given to that they are easy to put on and take off and that they are functional.
Jesse Lempiäinen
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2007 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Lönnrot School Steerable shopping trolley: a trolley for elderly people.
Joonas Härmä and Tuomas Korpela, 1st grade
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2002 High school category 2nd prize (400 euros) Palokka High School Jyväskylä After-shower warmer
Joonas Lahin
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2007 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Tyysterniemi School Protective glove: a glove that protects you from cutting your fingers when you work with sharp tools.
Juha Nyman (TT 1)
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2003 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Oulu College of Culture and Technology Oulu Mobile phone charger which uses wind power and enables charging without mains power in remote districts
Juho Johansson, 2nd grade
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2002 Comprehensive School Category Joint 2nd prize (400 euros) Primary School of the Toivakka parish village Jyväskylä Detector of poisonous mushrooms
Juho Silventoinen and Leevi Susimaa
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2007 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Lavola School Noise collector: sucks noise through a hose into its stomach. The noise collector sucks the loud babble of voices from a school lunch room in order that pupils can eat peacefully. It first warns by saying: "Silence!". If this does not help, it starts sucking the noise.
Jussi Honkanen (AT 1)
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2003 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Oulu College of Culture and Technology Oulu Solar-powered car ventilator where solar panels on the roof of the car supply power to the ventilators in a parked car
Jussi Suihkonen
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2005 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Mänttä Regional Education Center Siemens Simatic Step7 – program development. This final project includes innovative solutions to the problems of logic in existing industrial processes. The project was done at the plant of Sulzer Pumps Finland in Mänttä, where the solutions applied in the pipe storage area of the test station removed the problems of moving the pipes on the storage walls and improved the smoothness and accuracy of pipe changes
Kaisa Maansalo
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2005 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Pirkanmaa College Innovative coloured knitted jacket. Maisansalo introduces a new technique to create individual knitted patterns. She has created a computer program and a method for computer-aided making of pictures on knitted products by using a knitting machine, as early as in the production stage. The advantages of this method are shorter production stages, easy-care, impressiveness, durability and versatility.
Kallela School
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2005 Comprehensive School Category Honourable Mention Kallela School Kallela School was awarded an honourable mention for active participation in INNOSCHOOL 2005.
Kasper Kettunen
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2007 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Alakylä School Living traffic light: a living traffic light prevents disobedient people, including motorists, from driving or walking at red light.
Kati Kosonen
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2007 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize South Karelia Vocational College The project "Determining the fibre content in black liquor - an alternative to sinter" describes how effective recovery of black liquor in the process and its reliable determination are of great importance both economicly and environmentally. In the experimental section of the study, the student has shown creativity and problem solving skills in finding novel solutions. As a whole, the final project shows an innovative and energetic approach to various solution models.
Kim Suomalainen
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2005 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Ruosniemi School Keijo Kätevä. Keijo Kätevä is a wiper wheel with a water-absorbing cloth around it. The table is wiped by pushing the wiper wheel back and forth.
Laura Jäntti, 1st grade
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2002 Comprehensive School Category Joint 2nd prize (400 euros) Muuratsalo School Jyväskylä Cyclist?s helmet with key holder
Leena-Kaisa Kammonen, 1st grade
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2002 High school category 1st prize (600 euros) Palokka High School Jyväskylä Crumb-free table
Maria Turpeinen, 2nd grade
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2002 Comprehensive School Category Honourable Mention Muuratsalo School Jyväskylä Double stairs
Marja Luoma and Susanna Myyryläinen
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2004 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Hervanta Institute Eyeglasses with + and – focus
Mikko Koho
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2007 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize South Karelia Vocational College Imatra The project "Automated natural gas compressor station, and electrical installations in rooms with danger of explosion" covers an extensive subject matter. In addition to a compressor station, the student looked into electrical installations in all kinds of rooms with danger of explosion. Actually, such rooms exist in almost every industrial plant. This project is awarded on the following basis: the subject is topical, the study is well made and it has increased the student's proficiency.
Mila Sederholm, Petriina Penttinen and Noora Heikkonen
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2007 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Lavola School Temperature-regulated headset: with this headset you can both listen to music and control warm and cool air distribution. You can also record singing into the headset and listen to what you have sung.
Minttu Mecklin and Iina Törrönen
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2006 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Karsikko School Joensuu ‘hyppix’ motorised skipping-bar, with accessories, for outside use.
Muuratsalo School
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2002 Comprehensive School Category Honourable Mention Muuratsalo School Jyväskylä Active participation in and exemplary preparation for the INNOSCHOOL 2002 event
Nea Pietilä and Minja Kauppila
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2006 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Mäkkylä School Espoo Shoe radar to warn visually impaired of obstacles.
Niko Kuiri, Samuli Naukkarinen, Joona Ojala, Tomi, Räsänen and Waltteri Sorjonen
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2006 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Utra School Joensuu Snow pusher with excellent accessories for versatile all-year use.
Olli Saikkonen, 1st grade
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2002 High school category Honourable Mention Palokka High School Jyväskylä Adjustable chair
Oskari Ervasti and Antti Räsänen (2nd grade)
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2003 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Rajakylä School Oulu Bottle filling machine which fills the buyer?s own bottles with a selected soft drink without increasing the consumption of bottles
Oulu College of Culture and Technology
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2003 Vocational School Category Honourable Mention Oulu College of Culture and Technology Oulu Active participation in Innoschool
Roope Valomäki
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2006 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Karsikko School Joensuu Flexible building blocks that are visible in the dark and can be magnetically attached to each other to build, for example, a lamp.
Sampo Klemetti, 2nd grade
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2002 Comprehensive School Category Honourable Mention Muuratsalo School Jyväskylä Heatable teddy bear
Sanna Laaksonen
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2004 Vocational School Category Tampere Institute of Health Care Accident button
Sanna Lehtonen, Sini-Joanna Romo and Jemina Suikkonen
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2004 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Tampere Commercial College Luminous tag / carrier bag combination
Susanna Laukkanen
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2006 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Noljakka School Joensuu Wash basin with excellent, adequate grips for elderly people.
Tommi Täyrynen
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2005 Vocational School Category Innoschool Prize Valkeakoski Vocational Institute Computer-aided music composition. A method for easy production of high quality music. It allows a short cut: not even beginners need to look for all sources or try every possibility but are quickly able to make music themselves
Ville Kiimala, 7th grade
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2001 Comprehensive School Category 2nd prize (2,000 Finnish marks) Syväkangas School Kemi Model for a remote control for windows and Venetian blinds
Vilma Hilden
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2005 Comprehensive School Category Innoschool Prize Toejoki Elementary School Do-it-yourself rucksack. The rucksack can be coloured and patterned with the textile dyes and decorations accompanying the rucksack