In the first Polish part of the competition for young engineers, the winner was the XTRUDE ZERO project by Mike Ryan, a student of biomedical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology (PW) and Aleksander Trakul from the University of Edinburgh. 

During the pandemic, students prepared a farm of 3D printers, which allowed the production of protective helmets for health care workers. The students found that even their relatively small set of machines was contributing to the circulation of large amounts of plastic.

It was the beginning of the XTRADE ZERO, generally available device for disinfecting and recycling used 3-layer protective masks, turning them into reusable polymer granules.

The competition run by the James Dyson Foundation has been organized since 2005 but for the first time in Poland. It supports students of engineering and design studies, young designers who think outside the box and create innovations.