Participants · Projects
Every team arrives at The Grand Jam with its own proposal: researched, tested and defended before the jury.
Here we share the confirmed projects, as their teams and the organisation authorise publication.
Costa Rica · Universidad FidélitasFrom poison to oxygen
What if one of the most toxic elements on Mars could become a resource for life?
Team
Victoria Fabiola Rocha Ramírez · Gabriel Bonilla Mora · Sharon Raquel Valenciano De La O · Meylin Daniel Irola Flores · Jorge Daniel Elizondo Araya · José Pablo Zamora Mora
Spain · IES Antonio López GarcíaCreating life where it seems impossible today
How do you build a habitable place when almost everything is missing?
Team
Inés García Maroto · Alba Sánchez Jiménez · Mónica Soleto Soliz · Nicolás Mota Galbis · Laura Fernández · Jorge Poveda
Mentorship
Patricia Blázquez Esquinas
Spain · IES SatafiFrom regolith to food
How do you grow food where the soil isn't ready to sustain life?
Team
Ariadna Álvarez Moreno · Ángel Caserío Martín · Joel Llorca Romero · Carla Linge Moreno · Carla Hernández González · Andrés Ramón Pino Renaud
Mentorship
Raquel Casado Fernández
Spain · IES AltaírRestoring the land to make life possible
How do you produce food in a place where the soil isn't yet ready to sustain life?
Team
Silvia Ortiz Manzano · Álvaro Menor Germán · Markel Montejo Andrés · Paola Mateos Pesquera · Gabriel Bachiller Moreno · Ronda Escobar Román · Sheila Agenjo Alcaide
Spain · Universidad Carlos III de MadridBuilding while we regenerate
What if the material we build with could also help restore the soil?
Team
Jordi López López · Xavier Sabaté Roldán · Marcos Álvarez Sánchez · Esther Sanz Corredera · Gabriela Inés Aladro Aguilera
Chihuahua, MexicoWhere the soil comes back to life
How do you recover a toxic, structureless soil until it becomes a space capable of sustaining life?
Team
Bryan Fernando Palma Méndez · Luna Estrada Flores · Pamela Itzel García Tarelo · Jesús Manuel García Sánchez · Joselin Cera Vega · José Roberto Guzmán Ortiz
Mentorship
Luis Alberto Grijalva Romero
Chihuahua, Mexico · Tecnológico de Monterrey, Chihuahua CampusProtecting water before it becomes contaminated
What if we could stop contamination before it reached the water we need to live?
Team
Alonso Alejandro Alarcón Parra · Triana Camila Alvarez Torris · Jesús Alejandro Herrera Gutiérrez · Isacar Esparza Muñoz · Valeria Areli Hernández Gándara · Eliel Alfredo Mejía Villa
Mentorship
Manuel Valencia García
Chihuahua, MexicoGrowing better starts with understanding the soil
How do you keep an agricultural system stable when every drop of water and every soil change matters?
Team
Miranda Valeria Quiroz Valdés · Adrián Portillo Palma · Julio Arnaldo Barreras Castro · Adrián Isaías Castillo Sánchez · Israel Antonio Valenzuela Prieto · Melissa Paulina Flores Sandoval
Mentorship
Juan Alberto Ramírez Quintana
Chihuahua, MexicoSeeing the problem before it's too late
What happens when losing one plant can compromise an entire food system?
Team
Carlos Mizael Yáñez Gámez · Alann Rentería Jurado · Issamar Ponce Delgado · Rubén Payan Gallardo · Kenya Galilea Esparza Marta · Tadeo Castro Aguilar · Estefanía Tarango Villa
Chihuahua, MexicoGrowing more with far less water
How do you produce food when water is one of the scarcest resources?
Team
Jonathan de Jesús Fierro Muñoz · Francisco Octavio Muñoz Rodríguez · Valeria Vicuña Álvarez · Yovanni Carmona Meléndez · María Leida Chávez Bustillos · Daniela Ailenee Ortega
Mentorship
Álvaro Domínguez Cásares
PeruExtracting resources without wasting water
How do you make use of Mars's resources without generating new waste in the process?
Team
Bruno Ryan Valencia Malpartida · Jack Anndy Vásquez Faustino · Raphael Marcelo Dagnino Lanao
Mentorship
Daniel Federico Bejar Quispe