๐— ๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€ championship has started! Last week of June we had two meet and greet sessions – spanned across ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ we had to adapt for different timezones, with ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฐ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ joining in total. This was a great kick-off and a chance to meet and get to know each other for individual partaking teams as well as organisers. We can proudly say that our championship has been joined by a splendid array of teams: makers, researchers, designers, and artists from diverse fields.

On 30th of July there was another important meeting: ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€ participants met Mi-Hy scientists for an online microbial fuel cell making ๐—ค&๐—” ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป. Each of the ๐Ÿณ ๐— ๐—ถ-๐—›๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ took part and received many excellent questions: on materials and sustainability as well as how to build, harvest and even sonify MFCs.

We are incredibly excited about the developing MudTronics projects and hope to see interesting prototypes and experiments soon! Finalists will present at EMPOWER UNIVERSITร‰ PARIS-SACLAY on 25th of September 2026.