Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The winning K-3 STEM team at the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision STEM competition held in Washington, DC ...
[+] on June 13, 2024. Third graders, Isabella Gustin, Adriana Icaza and Emilia Martinez-Christensen of St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School in Miami, Florida created a child-friendly wearable device, the Allergen Detector to detect allergies.
Jax Photography On June 13, 2024, a team of third-grade girls took the stage in Washington, DC, to accept their win at the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision STEM competition . The winning K-3 STEM team, Isabella Gustin, Adriana Icaza, and Emilia Martinez-Christensen, created the Allergen Detector, a wearable child-friendly device that detects food allergies. Their teacher, Ana King, and coach, Carmen Garcia, supported their project.
The team used visual and scent technology to detect common odor molecules in food and determine which ingredients were present that could cause an allergic reaction. The Allergen Detector analyzes the food and gives a green, yellow, or red signal to indicate which foods are safe to eat, possibly contaminated with an allergen or containing an allergen. Third graders, Isabella Gustin, Adriana Icaza and Emilia Martinez-Christensen took first prize in .
.. [+] K-3 for their wearable the Allergen Detector.
Jax Photography The device is Blue-tooth enabled, and it can scan a QR code in different languages of prepackaged to determine if those foods have allergens. Th.
