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Jasmine Li 李嬉恩 603
Student Many children around the world lack access to a good
Student
Work Manual Shower Device education, which relates to SDG #4, Quality Education. When
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children cannot learn, they miss opportunities for a better future.

secure good jobs, maintain their health, and contribute to the
Carina Huang 黃婉昀 605 Without education, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to
Have you ever considered growth of their families and communities. A lack of education also
how people with mobility increases inequality and slows down a country's development.
problems can take a shower? To solve this problem, I designed the EduBridge Tablet, which
Sometimes, older people is a small, strong tablet. It includes learning videos, stories, and
couldn’t wash their whole practice games, allowing students to learn even if they live far
body properly. Also, when away from school. It includes an offline learning system, videos,
older people take a shower by and games that work without the internet. The tablet is solar
themselves, they may fall or powered and uses sunlight to charge. It has a durable tablet
slip. Therefore, older people will design, with a strong case and long battery life.
Everyone should have the right to quality education, and my
need help from helpers, and that can make showering very slow invention can provide people around the world to get the education
and tiring.
To solve these problems, I designed the Manual Shower they should have at their
Device to help older people and people with mobility problems age, so they can have
get clean in a safe and comfortable way. This device is a better knowledge, find good
comfortable chair that has sponges and water sprayers on the jobs and opportunities,
sides and bottom. It has a lever you use to control the sponges and change their lives. My
and sprayers to wash your body, back, and feet. Furthermore, it design also helps protect the
has a non-slip mat at the bottom of the chair to keep you safe. Earth because it uses solar
This innovation also connects with several SDGs, including power, so it does not need
SDG #3, Good Health and Well-Being, SDG #10, Reduced electricity from power plants,
Inequalities, and SDG #11, Sustainable Cities and Communities. which reduces pollution.

The Ocean Cleaner
PetalDrop
Amber Chou 周家璽 607
Belle Sung 宋貝羽 604 When plastic floats in
Think about it: people use water all over the world. Some the ocean for too long, it will
people just use a little, but some people use a lot. Because break down and become
people use too much water, it doesn’t just cause higher bills; it microplastic. Many animals
can also cause Earth to have less and less water. As a result, will accidentally eat it and
we won’t have much water to use and drink anymore. die. People might eat the
That is why I invented a machine called PetalDrop. This fish and get sick. Therefore,
machine tracks when and how much water you use. It uses I invented a machine called “The Ocean Cleaner”. It cleans up
the Petal Color System: when the microplastic or other trash in the ocean.
petal is pink, your water usage is The outer layer of it is made of stainless steel. It can move
safe. When it turns yellow, it gives by itself in the ocean by using an underwater propeller. It
you a warning. If it turns brown, detects microplastic or trash are with optical sensors. A fine
you are using too much water and mesh filter made of stainless steel removes microplastic from
your petal is going to fall. There the water, and a pump pushes clean water back into the sea.
is also an app called PetalDrop It is connected to SDG #6, clean water and sanitation,
App that gives you countdowns because it cleans the ocean water by eliminating microplastic;
for when the petals will drop and #3, good health and well-being, because it allows people to eat
shows you water-saving tips. food that is safer; and #14, life below water, because it makes
life below water a better place and safer place to live in.

Green Delivery System Smart Sleep Pod

Calliope Chen 陳希 608
Nowadays, people use Max Su 蘇柏予 607
the internet to buy things Don’t you feel tired and frustrated every time you wake up?
from their house. This may Don’t you want to get just a little more sleep? Then you should
seem very convenient, definitely try the Smart Sleep Pod! It improves your sleep so
but there’s a dark side, you can have good conditions to quickly fall asleep.
the damage it has caused There are many features in the Smart Sleep Pod. A
for the environment is heartbeat sensor uses a fingertip pulse oximeter to monitor
much bigger than you can the user’s heartbeat. A breath sensor uses a CO² detector to
imagine. It not only creates measure the user’s breath. A moisture sensor to detects the
CO² but also leads to bigger and unimaginable problems. humidity level in the air. The pod analyzes adjusts the conditions
so they can sleep better.
The problem I wish to solve involves both SDGs #13 It connects to SDG #3,
and #15. The Green Delivery System I have designed Good Health and Well-Being,
hopes to solve both problems starting with making delivery because sleep allows your body
environmentally friendly. The Green Delivery System transports to recover. Enough sleep also
parcels underground using windmills and solar panels as a connects to SDG #4, Quality
source of energy. The parcel boxes are reusable devices with Education, and SDG #8, Decent
wheels powered by green energy, which means they won’t Work and Economic Growth,
produce CO² while moving. There is a GPS system inside them because people can learn or
which tells them where to go and where to stop. work more efficiently when they
are well-rested.