Growing up in India, R achna Nath often asked lots of questions and looked for unusual ways of doing things. She wants to cater to those students now that she is a teacher.
The science teacher at Arizona College Prep High School says that he came to the school to contribute. When I was in high school, I found the person I was looking for.
After school, he started working with students to come up with solutions to real world problems. The students learned how to apply for grants to build prototypes of their new products.
The program started as an after-school program for three students and will now be a year-long class. He says that they can feel free to fail. The pitch competition will be done by the end of the year. The real-world experience of pitching and prototyping products is what distinguishes the program from others.
Students have worked on a device to amplify wi-fi signals in dead zones, a hat that helps detect heat stress, and how mealworms can digest styrofoam to cut down on pollution.
Omina Nematova says that if she had a creative idea, she should talk to the teacher. A group of students created a hat that can help prevent heat stroke. If a person faints, the sensors on the hat can detect it. The hat sends an alert to the app that tells the person to go inside and drink water or dial an emergency number.
One of the students who worked on the hat said that they realized that the problem they were trying to solve was a problem. A lot of people hadn't solved it.
A $50,000 grant from the Arizona State University's Healthy Urban Environments Initiative will be used to build a prototype and test it on student athletes.
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That is a sign that something needs to be changed. She believes that our social responsibility is to motivate these students to do more. Is it true that true lifelong learning is ensured? I don't believe so.
Sandhu, who plans to study biology or biomedical engineering when she begins college in the fall, says her high school experience made her aware of more career options.
When she was a freshman, she didn't think she'd be able to do an engineering project that would help hundreds of people. I used to think that the amount of research was just a science fair or working at a university lab.
She credits Nath with changing her mind about pursuing engineering in the future.
Sandhu says that his life would not be the same without her.
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