DI Alumni Spotlight: An Interview with James Dyson Award Winner Filip Budny

Image featuring DI alum Filip Budny standing in a workshop with WaterSense prototypes behind him. Below are photos of Filip building projects during his student years. Text reads: “DI Alumni Spotlight: Filip Budny, 2025 James Dyson Award Winner. A Journey from Student Maker to Global Innovator.”

When a toxic algal bloom devastated the Oder River in Poland in 2022, it wasn’t just an environmental disaster, it was a wake-up call. For Destination Imagination (DI) alum Filip Budny, it became the moment that set everything in motion. Seeing hundreds of tons of fish washed ashore and realizing no system had caught the […]