The 2025 TCT Awards ceremony noticed the 2025 TCT Sanjay Mortimer Basis Rising Star Award introduced to Abigail Duckworth.
The award, now in its third yr, is a collaboration between TCT and the Sanjay Mortimer Basis (SMF), which recognises an up-and-coming neurodivergent younger one who has the potential to contribute significantly in direction of the engineering Business. The winner receives a Prusa CORE One 3D printer and the alternative to develop into an SMF Star, offering entry to grants, coaching, mentorship and extra.
Duckworth describes 3D printing as the primary outlet that allowed her creativity to run wild – and her work displays that fantastically. Regardless of navigating the challenges of undiagnosed ADHD on the time, she didn’t simply be taught to make use of 3D printing – she excelled. Duckworth pioneered analysis into the usage of lattice AM to help arthritis instances throughout her undergraduate dissertation, resulting in a printed peer-reviewed paper.
Watch Duckworth’s acceptance speech in full.
