Track record

Recognized on the national and global stage.

In under a year, EcoBin went from a market-research idea to a semi-finalist, a finalist, and a global category winner — judged by universities, national agencies, and MIT.

Our accolades

Three competitions, three milestones.

Each round pushed EcoBin further — sharper technically, more credible commercially, and more ready to scale.

EcoBin prototype and poster on display at the 27th National Software Contest 2025

Judges reviewing the EcoBin poster and prototype at the National Software Contest 2025

National Software Contest 2025 (NSC 2025) award certificate presented to Piyatida Luangon

Semi-Finalist

August 2025

National Software Competition 2025

National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand

EcoBin advanced through three progressive rounds — preliminary, regional representative, and semi-final — competing against software projects from across Thailand.

3 rounds advanced $300 development grant

EcoBin team on stage at the AI Innovator Award 2025 Pitch Competition final round

Piyatida (Nan) Luangon presenting EcoBin at the AI Innovation Summit 2025

AI Innovator Award 2025 Certificate of Participation presented to Piyatida Luangon

Finalist

November 2025

AI Innovator Award 2025

CMKL University, Thailand

EcoBin was selected as a finalist and presented at the AI Innovation Summit 2025 and Sustainability Expo 2025, earning a scholarship offer from CMKL University through mentor recognition.

AI Innovation Summit 2025 Sustainability Expo 2025 CMKL scholarship offer

EcoBin team holding the prototype bin at the MIT App Inventor Global Education Summit

EcoBin team at the MIT App Inventor Global Education Summit showcase

MIT Global Appathon 2026 Certificate of Excellence awarded to Piyatida (Nan) Luangon for EcoBin, Youth Team Winner

Category Winner

May 2026

MIT Global Appathon 2026

MIT App Inventor Foundation

EcoBin won the Youth Team Category, competing against 2,146 teams from 141 countries, and was presented at the MIT App Inventor Global Education Summit at MIT.

2,146 teams 141 countries Presented at MIT

The journey

From a national semi-final to a global stage.

Aug 2025

National Software Competition 2025 — Semi-Finalist

Advanced through preliminary, regional, and semi-final rounds with NSTDA; received a $300 development grant to keep building.

Nov 2025

AI Innovator Award 2025 — Finalist

Presented EcoBin at CMKL University's AI Innovation Summit and Sustainability Expo; received a scholarship offer through mentor recognition.

May 2026

MIT Global Appathon — Youth Team Category Winner

Selected as the winning team out of 2,146 entries from 141 countries; presented EcoBin at the MIT App Inventor Global Education Summit.

Presentations & demos

Watch how EcoBin works, straight from the team.

From the first working prototype demo to the MIT Global Appathon pitch presentation.

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First Demo Prototype

The earliest working prototype demo, hosted on Google Drive →

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MIT Global Appathon Presentation

The competition pitch presentation, hosted on Google Drive →

System Flowchart — First Prototype Demo

How a pour gets classified, routed, and logged — from kiosk interaction to the AI model to backend to downstream recycling.

Flowchart of EcoBin's first prototype demo: local restaurants/households bring used cooking oil, interact with the kiosk, a Raspberry Pi 5 camera sends images to a YOLOv11-cls AI classification model, oil is routed to the oil or non-oil bucket, data is logged to a Firestore database via a backend API, the user is notified on their mobile phone, and collected oil feeds into oil recycling/biodiesel production.