Concentrating on science is one of the most ideal approaches to change lives.

Science, innovation, designing and maths - alleged STEM subjects - haven't generally had the trendiest notoriety – in spite of the fact that Breaking Bad has done a reasonable piece for the scientist's jacket. Dated impression of what contemplating an exploratory degree at college involves, can even now put young people off.

As indicated by an overview a year ago, while ladies make up about portion of the UK workforce, they make up just a fifth of those working in the science, innovation and designing commercial ventures.

Besides, a report in 2013 recommended that the UK needs to twofold the quantity of yearly selects into designing by 2020 to take care of expected demand.

Obviously, bringing issues to light among youngsters about the open doors accessible still should be high on the instruction plan

The Telegraph STEM Awards program - now in its second year - means to help with this. Understudies can pitch to driving industry specialists, with the chance to win £25,000 and a bespoke coaching program.

The Awards' five backers speak to innovation, car, plan in the constructed environment, pharmaceuticals, and vitality - and the champ will be chosen by a specialist judging board in June.

In spite of the way that the finalists are all less than 23 years old, they speak to the fate of spearheading development. The current year's thoughts incorporate a bra intended for pregnant ladies to avert back agony and a digger that can be worked remotely, constraining the potential for mishaps on building locales.

Be that as it may, with obsolete discernments as yet keeping youngsters down, we solicited our finalists to address three from the myths that encompass contemplating STEM subjects.

1. 'I'll invest all my energy in a lab'

Tom Mallett, a 20-year-old second year MEng understudy at the University of Bristol, is the finalist from the car classification. He trusts that the overwhelming prospect of more hours at college puts potential understudies off.

Mallett says that science and maths specifically are by and large seen as "all the more difficult at school" and after that "all the more requesting of your time" at college (while expressions can have as meager as four hours of contact time a week, engineers have more like 20).

In any case, the possibility that science understudies spend their lives secured away labs and never see the light of day is deceiving; particularly considering the position years regularly offered as a component of STEM degrees.

Abbie Romano, 21, is as of now on an arrangement year amid a MEng in structural building at Liverpool John Moores University, and invests the greater part of her energy out on development destinations. She is the finalist in the outline in the constructed environment class, and needs to make a digger that can be worked without drivers to diminish life-undermining mischances.

As indicated by Romano, the generalizations connected with STEM are distant with the genuine experience. She says: "I do wear cosmetics, I don't get back home head to toe in mud, I'm not a nerd – you can act naturally in this calling."

2. 'It's not for young ladies'

Out of more than 100 understudies, Abbie is one of just five young ladies on her course. While she adores the subject, she trusts all the more should be done to draw in young ladies at school.

"I went to a school that was ace ladies yet building wasn't a choice. I delighted in maths and being handy however the professions exhortation wasn't there," she says.

System Rail as of late directed an overview of 500 young ladies, which uncovered that 39 for every penny think occupations like designing and development are more qualified to young men.

Mark Goudie, a 23-year-old last year MEng understudy from the University of Strathclyde, won over the judges in the vitality classification with his thought for utilizing vitality from seaward wind ranches when power isn't required and creating it in oil repositories.

He recommends that showing STEM in elementary schools needs to enhance to pull in young ladies: "Individuals don't completely comprehend at junior level what STEM subjects intend to us as a general public.

"It's especially an issue for young ladies – they need to change society and individuals yet don't understand STEM is one of the greatest ways that you can do this."

It was this craving to have any kind of effect that drove Habiba Akhtar, a 23-year-old MPharm understudy at Medway School of Pharmacy, to enter the opposition.

Her proposition to the judges, in the pharmaceuticals classification, was a bionic lady that could be utilized as a part of clinical trials, connecting up lab-developed veins and manufactured lungs which can be controlled by a PC.

"It's extremely savvy in the long haul," she says. "It will make scrutinize a considerable measure less demanding and give more characterized results."

3. 'I'm not sufficiently sharp'

As per a number of the finalists, the easiest thoughts are regularly the best - and that incorporates the item pitch. Tom, the car finalist, trusts that "having the capacity to portray what I needed to do truly effortlessly" won the judges over.

His thought includes utilizing all the more intense and productive Sterling chambers (ones containing liquid that thermally grows and contracts), which are warmed inside by a battery-controlled resistive component, instead of remotely, as an other option to customary burning barrels.

The victors of the innovation class additionally kept their pitch clear. Simon Gangar, 19, Amarpal Singh Gill, 20, Julian Leroy Manners, 21, Karun George, 19, and Sadia Imani Khanum, 22, are second year understudies at Aston University, considering mechanical building, electromechanical building and modern item outline.

In the wake of taking a gander at the NHS, they chose to focus back torment as a reasonable issue that effects pregnant ladies. The gathering thought of the Postura – a bra that tells the wearer where they could enhance their stance through tender vibration conveyed by customized electronic segments.

The innovation finalists recommend programs like STEM Ambassadors should be championed to get youngsters amped up for the subjects. The plan sends grown-ups from STEM foundations into schools to draw in with youngsters and help educators make their lessons available