Private School News

21st century ‘Duke Box’

Nottingham High School pupil, Sam Duke, 17 has invented an award-winning media extender, the ‘Duke Box’, as part of his Design & Technology AS Level coursework.

The Duke Box will stream video and audio from any attached computer wirelessly to the user’s television. Whilst existing products need a wireless network to attach to, Sam has incorporated his own wireless technology into the device. This means that a user only needs to install the software Sam has written on to their PC to be up and running, greatly simplifying the process for the average home user.

Sam has so far raked in three awards for his invention; The Young Engineer for Britain’s Midlands Region award for the best Integration and Application of Electronics, The Sir William Siemens Medal for the most innovative Design Technology project, and a Crest Gold Award.

Kevin Fear, headmaster at Nottingham High School said, “Sam’s invention is fantastic and richly deserves the awards and recognition it has received. We are all extremely proud of Sam and know that this is the start of a promising career in engineering for him.”

Sam is now hoping for a national prize at the final of the Young Engineers competition in London in March. In the meantime he is developing his next invention and looking forward to taking up his place at Cambridge next year to study engineering.