Support local and vote for our Google SA maker
Steve Gray is the founder of The MakerSpace and has made it to the finals of the Google SA Impact Challenge.
Ballito’s head maker is the only KZN finalist in the first Google SA Impact Challenge and needs your vote to help him spread innovative tech skills.
The international challenge looks for nonprofits and social enterprises with game-changing ideas to create economic opportunity in their communities – and they have found one of their 12 finalists in Steve Gray.
Gray is the founder of The MakerSpace – a unique setup that teaches people to take full advantage of the technological tools of the fourth industrial revolution to make and create a future for themselves by becoming innovators and to innovate for good.
As a finalist, they have already won 125 000 U.S. Dollars in funding, but with your vote they have the chance of doubling their grant as the People’s Choice winner.
“We have been working for five years for a breakthrough like this.
“With this funding, we could make the dreams we have to grow and introduce more people to new tech to help them improve the world around them a possibility,” said Gray, who was also recently made a Red Bull Basement University global mentor.
The team are busy gearing up to go present to the judges in Johannesburg on November 28, where the winners will be announced.
Vote online by going to impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/southafrica2018.
Voting closes on November 25.
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