Ruth Amos

Ruth Amos (born 1989) was Young Engineer for Britain 2006, with her idea, The StairSteady. The StairSteady is an aid to enable people with limited mobility to use their stairs confidently and safely. The StairSteady was designed as part of her GCSE resistant materials project as a response to a teacher’s challenge to design an aid to enable people with limited mobility to use their stairs. She is a well known representative within STEM and an ambassador for a number of initiatives. She was the youngest person ever to appear on Management Today ’35 under 35’ list. She is a freeman in the Worshipful Company for Scientific Instrument Makers. Ruth was one of the 2016 curators of FutureFest, Nesta’s flagship innovation festival, held at the Tobacco Docks in London. Ruth is currently represented by Room54 ltd for her speaking. In 2015 she gave her first TedxTalk at Cambridge University. Ruth co-founded Kids Invent Stuff, an educational youtube channel bringing to life kids' invention ideas. Kids Invent Stuff(www.youtube.com/kidsinventstuff) is an educational project aimed at engaging more young people with STEM. They build and test working prototypes of inventions designed by 4-11 year olds, to engage and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. Kids Invent Stuff has over 46k subscribers and has had over 1.8 million views, with projects featured on BBC's The One Show, Radio 5 Live, The Daily Show, Tomorrow’s World Live, BBC News Online and major US TV news outlets. Awards: Young Engineer for Britain 2006 Design Most Likely To Benefit the Disabled 2006 Design Most Likely To Benefit the Community 2006 Young Entrepreneurs – Runner up 2006 Derbyshire Young Achiever 2006 Intel ISEF Science and Engineering Fair – Finalist - Represented the UK in Mechanical Engineering 2008 Management Today 35 Under 35 – Ruth was the youngest person ever to be entered onto the list 2009 Women of the Future – Young Star Award 2009 Women of Achievement – by the Women of the Year Foundation 2010 Yorkshire 42 Under 42 2010 Future 100 Young Social Entrepreneur 2011 – Striding Out Network of Aspiring Women – Young Entrepreneur 2011 and Overall Winner. BHTA Product of the Year 2014 (StairSteady) Grant Thornton Faces of Vibrant Economy 2016 Electronic’s Weekly Brightspark 30 under 30 2018