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Water Filtration Using Biofilms Sereena Gee, Calista Lat, Krista Ruggieri, Joan Karstrom

May 11, 2020 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Access to clean water in poverty-stricken communities poses a significant and expensive challenge globally. The effects of consuming unfiltered water are detrimental to health and physical well-being, as it may lead to waterborne and foodborne illnesses. Our solution, a slow-sand water filtration system, entails the use of inexpensive and abundant natural resources that are proven

Early Wildfire Detection Using a Raspberry Pi Smoke Sensor Toby Chappell, Kelly Ly, Paola Portillo, Jon Le, Kady Lazarte

May 11, 2020 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

To help mitigate the impacts of wildfires, we are creating a smoke detector sensor that has a stable power source, able to transmit a message through Raspberry Pi, and capable of detecting a wildfire when it occurs. We hope by developing this smoke detection system, we can help notify the authorities at a quicker rate

Plastics: The Good, the Bad, and the Alternatives Gilana Pikover, Emma Licko, Eva Stanton, Corwin Rybchinskiy, Lauren Burokas

May 11, 2020 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

With plastic pollution on the rise, the environment has seen a huge negative impact. While biodegradable alternatives have been around, are they really the most efficient alternative? Biodegradables often don’t degrade well and still cause a negative environmental impact. Looking specifically at straws, there are a few disposable alternatives to plastic, but which are the

Scaled-Down Centralized Autonomy Arshia Behzad, Zubair Lakhia, Tracie Okumura, Brinly Xavier, Stephen White

May 11, 2020 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Eliminating drunk, drugged, and distracted driving is a serious challenge that the world has yet to solve. We thought it best to approach this challenge from a technological direction. We built a self-driving car that receives a camera feed, reroutes it to a stronger server, and sends instructions back to the car. This method of

Nutrition and Fitness on the Chapman Campus Emily Peterson, Emily Wong, Chelsea Zhao, Kennedy Guillen, Nawal Alasmari, Aubrey Sine

May 11, 2020 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

The grand challenge our team recognized was that maintaining good overall health on college campuses is very difficult. Our team’s solution was to make nutritious eating and exercising convenient and easy to for Chapman students via our menu and fitness plan. The menus and fitness plan contributes to society at large because our scientific-based menus

Combating Ocean Acidification via Chemical Manipulation and Photosynthetic Aquatic Plants Ali Mahmoud, Cindy Rivas, Sarah Yang, Joely Fontana, Alexa Wilson

May 11, 2020 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Ocean acidification is currently a major issue because of the damages it causes on the ocean’s ecosystem beginning with coral bleaching. In some past research, aquatic plants have demonstrated the ability to increase pH of surrounding water through carbon fixation and photosynthesis. With these ideas in mind, a series of tank experiments were created for

Non-Epileptic Seizures: A Case Report Heather Andrini, Sydni Au Hoy, Kaelyn Bridgette, Kylie Deer, Lauren Hernandez, Ashley Okhovat

May 11, 2020 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

On February 11th, 2017, a 44-year-old woman was rushed to the emergency room, experiencing an attack of primarily left-sided paralysis and an inability to speak. This attack was described as an unusual moment of altered consciousness with no immediate resolution. Our project follows the path of this individual’s differential diagnoses, leading to the final diagnosis

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