Past Exploravision Winners



Past Exploravision Winners

Grades 4-6

Ener-bahn Ener-bahn generates electricity from asphalt in paved roadways and thereby reduces greenhouse gases and the dependency on fossil fuels. Energy from the sun absorbed by the asphalt travels to a series of liquid-filled pipes and nanotubes that carry the energy, in the form of heat, to a turbine which collects the pressure energy and forces the liquid into a thermo-electric generator that captures the heat energy and converts it into electricity.

J.E.T. Stand The portable J.E.T. Music Stand improves the success of practice by organizing music lesson plans and notes, teaching music theory through musical games, recording practice sessions and offering feedback to improve the musician’s performance. The notebook-sized instrumental practicing system has a flexible, earth-friendly electro chromic display powered by solar energy.

Wavemaster relies on Faraday's principle of electric induction by harnessing energy in ocean waves and converting it to useable electricity to help solve the world's energy problems. A "wave farm" is designed with a windmill-type feature, advanced composite materials that could withstand the sea's salinity and fierce nature, and underwater generating equipment housed inside a seabed-mounted post for stability in order to generate renewable energy.

TBMS – Taste Bud Modifier System medicinal spray safely alters taste bud receptors to promote healthy eating and prevent obesity and associated health problems by creating an aversion to unhealthy food and an affinity toward nutritional food. Ligands in the spray bind to targeted receptors to change taste transduction and coding mechanisms in which taste bud receptor cells transform food chemicals and activate nerve fibers that eventually send messages to the brain about taste.

D.A.P.E.S. (Diabetes Assistance and Prevention E-System) implants a nanosensor in a tooth to analyze harmful food intake for adolescent diabetics. The nanosensor continuously monitors and provides information such as sugar levels to a portable electronic system via wireless communication and warns or rewards children according to their consumption patterns.

The F.D.A. (Freedom from Drug Addiction) Vaccine attaches protein molecules to drug molecules and alerts the body's immune system to the presence of foreign molecules and immunizes it against the drug's addictive properties. The system helps the immune system to identify drug molecules that were previously undetectable due to their minute size.

Face Brace - The Face Brace relieves pain and promotes healing of severe facial burns. Molded to match facial contours, the ultra-thin light weight mask made of space-age material, provides medication and oxygen under pressure through a transdermal gel that seals the mask to the patient's face.

Tourette's Syndrome Preventer The Tourette's Syndrome Preventer is a pacemaker-like device that controls tics associated with the neurological disorder. Implanted at the base of the brain, it detects and reroutes tics to non-disruptive actions such as wiggling a toe, then uses the energy it took from the tic to recharge its battery.

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