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Two pupils present their flour mill, built from a worn bicycle tyre, at the Grassroots Innovation Camp in Kamuli. The pair take the microphone in front of the Grassroots Innovation Camp backdrop to explain how their mill works. One pupil narrates while the other mills grain in their tyre-rim grinder, showing the judges it works. The finished prototype: a bicycle tyre and rim rebuilt into a hand mill that grinds maize into flour. A pupil explains his coin bank, cut from a carton and fitted with a wooden dial lock, to encourage saving at home. A toy car made from dried maize cobs, foil and bottle tops, complete with a wire aerial. Three pupils walk the audience through the materials they salvaged to build their model car. The team demonstrates their maize-cob car beside the New Wave Technologies banner. Teachers, judges and guests follow the presentations from the shade of the tent. Learners from the visiting schools follow a classmate's pitch. A teacher stands behind his pupils as the next team sets up. Pupils from more than fifteen primary schools filled the camp ground at Lwanyama. The team's speaker explains how the car is powered, with the prototype on the table in front of him. A pupil shows the belts and chains his team wove from scrap rubber bands. A team presents a mobile kitchen garden: tomato and vegetable seedlings grown in sacks in an old wheelbarrow. A camp facilitator coaches a team through their presentation beside the "Ideas grow here" banner. A pupil pours water through her team's homemade funnel and filter to show how it cleans drinking water. A pupil explains how his team makes cooking briquettes from waste, one of the camp's pollution ideas. A model house built from water and biscuit cartons, made to show low-cost housing ideas. A guest in a Grassroots Innovation Camp cap watches the presentations. Two of the Grassroots Innovation Camp facilitators follow the day's presentations. Three pupils present their team's idea from the front of the camp ground. A team presents its written pitch for cooler, cheaper houses built with biogas from animal waste. Four pupils wire a small lamp circuit in front of the audience. A team demonstrates a water filter built from a cut plastic bottle, charcoal, sand and stones. The team shows the chains, belts and bands they wove from recycled rubber. A pupil sets down a cup during the clean water activity on the camp ground. The audience, the crew and the sound desk at Lwanyama Primary School, Kisozi Town Council. Two pupils present the sports balls they wove by hand from banana fibre. A pupil explains the wire and cardboard machine his team built. The prototype on the table: a frame of bent wire with a cardboard body. A team waits to present in front of the Grassroots Innovation Camp backdrop. A team presents its handwashing station, built from a jerrycan and cups, to the camp.