Let us Introduce Ourselves First...
- My name is Mia Lorenzo, I am 16 years old, and I am a junior enrolled at Ed W. Clark High School. I am currently living in Henderson, Nevada and I have lived there my whole life. My hobbies include tennis, violin, and video games.
- Pleasure to meet you. I'm Jihee You, a high school junior from Henderson, Nevada. I get a bit competitive in playing board games with friends (my personal favorite is monopoly). I am currently interested in applied sciences and would like to travel to Antarctica one day.
- My name is Sarah Kim and I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I am a sophomore in West Career and Technical Academy. I became interested in science through the GATE program during elementary school. Since then, I have loved to read science books and research about different animals and topics. As a high schooler, I liked to volunteer in a clinic and research about different topics on my own.
- Hello, my name is Mirai Molde and I am a 10th grader from Las Vegas. I love science. I specifically like science because of all the technology and how it changes today's society.
NASA Home & City Scavenger Hunt made us realize how much spinoff technology has taken part in our everyday life, yet it remains barely noticed.
Appreciating the NASA spinoffs - technology that has been brought down from space - we started to expedite for spinoffs ourselves, discovering 8 of them literally a foot from ourselves--we took pictures of everyday spinoffs and organized them in Adobe Sparks.
THEN, WE STARTED TO BRAINSTORM OUR OWN SPINOFF. THIS IS OUR FIRST SPINOFF ILLUSTRATION. JUST TO NOTE-WE DREW IT, NOT PRESCHOOLERS.
The first draft sketch of the easy-to-wash plate incorporates the basic hydrophobic nature of the mitigation technology, which can be used to create plates that food remnants does not stick to. The sketch illustrates the small-scale superhydrophobic surface keeping the water droplets in shape.
Presenting...the ambitious and lazy self-cleaning dishes! The video below will summarize our idea of particle contamination mitigation method plates. Please take a look!
Personally, washing dishes has always been a bothersome chore that creeps onto subconscious annoyance after a pleasant meal. To relieve ourselves and the environment from washing dishes, we proposed self-cleaning dishes.
If you are wondering, "Aren't self-cleaning plates already in market?" Please click the button below to confirm NASA's advantage over its competitors. Successful self-cleaning dishes haven't appeared in market yet, but NASA's self-cleaning dishes can be the first.