On March 7, Chokchai Panyayong, THAI Senior Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, and Acting President, along with Marie-Louise Phillippe, Airbus Regional Sales Director, chaired the award presentation ceremony of the First TG Travel Green Innovation Competition, which encourages Thai youths to be creative in the area of green aviation innovation. First prize is a roundtrip ticket from Bangkok to Paris on THAI and a visit to the Airbus aircraft manufacturing center in Toulouse, France.
In an effort to boost environmental awareness, the company invited students from academic institutions nationwide to participate and submit their projects during November 2013 – January 2014. The competition goals were to create environmentally friendly innovations and products that may be used in aviation and to create a network for youths who have an interest in designing environmentally friendly innovations and products.
Chokchai Panyayong (second from left), THAI Senior Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, and Acting President; Ms. Marie-Louise Phillippe (second from right), Airbus Regional Sales Director; congratulate Jeerapan Jankaew (third left), and Panuwut Porntrakulsak (third right), winners of the Aviation Design Idea category, ePushback project from Kasetsart University.
The competition was judged by representatives from Airbus, the National Innovation Agency, a professor from the Faculty of Engineering at Kasetsart University, a professor from the Faculty of Architecture at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Ladkrabang, and a THAI representative.
Students from 18 institutions across the country participated in the competition and submitted 72 projects as an individual contestant or as a two-member team, with a professor as an advisor.
The competition consisted of three categories, with three awards per category. First place includes a roundtrip ticket from Bangkok to Paris on THAI and a visit to the Airbus aircraft manufacturing center in France sponsored by Airbus. Second place is a roundtrip ticket from Bangkok to Japan and third place is a roundtrip ticket from Bangkok to Chiang Mai.
