Last week Intel hosted their International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix. There, 1,600 students from around the world were invited to present their award-winning projects and compete for over $4 million in awards and scholarships. Here are some of the coolest new technologies invented by these stellar high schoolers.
A Way to Charge Your Cell Phone in 20 Seconds
You read that right. Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, California has developed an energy storage device that can be fully charged in 20 to 30 seconds. This tiny device can fit inside cell phones and potentially car batteries and charge them faster than the time it will take you to read this article. The supercapacitor, as the device is officially called, can last through 10,000 charge-recharge cycles compared with 1,000 cycles for conventional rechargeable batteries, Khare told NBC. Khare won Intel’s runners-up award and received $50,000 in scholarship funds for her work.
A Test to Tell You if You’re Allergic to One Cat Vs Another
Using the DNA in a cats’ saliva, Savannah Tobin, 18, of West Salem, Oregon has created a test that allows people to tell if they are allergic to one cat versus another. Her quick diagnostic test could allow shelters and pet stores to provide allergy ratings to potential pet adopters, potentially encouraging people to adopt who otherwise wouldn’t. Tobin scored a $5,000 award from Intel for her project.
A Self-Driving Car that Costs Less Than than $4,000
Simulations that Help Scientists Better Understand the Universe
Henry Wanjune Lin, 17, of Shreveport, Louisiana, simulated thousands of clusters of galaxies. The result: he’s provided astrophysicists with valuable new data that allows them to better understand the mysteries of the universe like dark matter, dark energy, and the balance of heating and cooling in the universe’s most massive objects. For his work, Lin took home Intel’s runners’ up award and a $50,000 scholarship.
A Computer Algorithm that Can Diagnose Leukemia
How impressed are you with the projects of these high school geniuses?
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