Several Filipino teen inventors received prizes at the competition that was organized by the Department of Science and Technology– Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI).
The competition was supported by the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF) and was overseen by a team of judges comprising veteran engineers from the country’s top universities.
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The innovations that the young inventors submitted for the contest included a hands-free computer interface with a built-in medical scanner, a living computer-monitored wastewater filtering and management system, and a smart assistant for the visually impaired.
DOST-SEI Director Josette Biyo said in a statement that this year’s entries highlighted “the brilliance and creativity of our young students.” “It’s a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that they were able to create, innovate, and collaborate despite the pandemic,” she added.
Among the prizes, the Youth Innovation Prizes (YIP) was awarded to students of Cavite Science Integrated School (CSIS), Ramon Teves Pastor Memorial-Dumaguete Science High School (RTPM-DSHS), and the Science and Technology Education Center – Cebu Senior High School (STEC-CSHS). In the Contactless computer interface category, the winning entry of the CSIS was submitted under the title, “ABSCISSA: An Arduino-Based Smart Contactless Interface Integrated with Syndromic Surveillance and Alert System for Fomite-Mediated Transmission Mitigation”. It was developed by Jimuel Clarence Z. Malimban, John Kenneth V. Sanchez, and Aira Gayle Pugeda.
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The CSIS’s entry was a hands-free computer interface that also serves as a warning device that monitors the health of its users.
The entry entitled, “Project WWW: A Multifunctional Waste-Water Web for Agrobotics”, was developed by Ericka Elaine Diputado, Anjeli L. Merecido, and Shauna E. Tifora.
The winning entry of Smart assistant for visually impaired was a “smart assistant” that is said to help visually impaired users to know what’s around them and even to read nearby signs and text. Called as “Project BlindSpot: Arduino-Based Object Distance Measurement, Identification and Optical Character Recognition Using YOLO Algorithm” it was developed by Johann Emir G. Margallo, Kate Ashley P. Liao, and Ron Marc L. Cañete. (AW)
Filipino teen inventors honored at DOST-SEI competition
Source: Pinoy News Udpates PH
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