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bil·LED: A Website to Promote Sustainability Through the Transition to LED Light Bulbs Erin Babbitt, Sharon Chang, Daniel Dinh, Parsa Mazloumin, Lorena Munoz, Charli Stein, Minna Yu

May 11, 2022 by | Student presentations

We created a LED light bulb conversion calculator that will provide the user with personalized information about the environmental and financial benefits of switching to LED light bulbs based on their current electricity usage and light bulb types.   Full Poster: bil-LED Follow the QR Code to the bil-LED website!  

Team Waxworms: Degradation of Polyethylene Plastic with Galleria mellonella Sidney Briski, Rhea Inumerable, Chathuni Liyanage, Natalie Saadeh, Roselyn Trinh, Avani Tumuluri

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

The excessive disposal of plastics has caused an unfathomable accumulation of plastics in cities, sewage systems, landfills, oceans etc., and is threatening ecosystems and their inhabitants all over the globe. With the absence of a sustainable and environmentally friendly means of properly disposing these plastics, this experiment was geared towards solving this challenge. In this

Working with Wastewater Yeseom Cho, Matthew Mead, Sarah Monthofer, Sebastian Vera and Jason Yoon

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Working with Wastewater is a 2-4 player educational board game designed for ages 12 and up hosted on Tabletopia. Each player is a wastewater treatment company looking to maximize profits while minimizing the waste produced by treating wastewater. Companies will start with a distinct wastewater treatment facility with different assets. Purchase additional wastewater treatment technologies

Teaching Ocean Acidification Athenna Gonzalez, Preciosa Hernandez, Jessica Romo, Leah Zahn

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Ocean acidification is a phenomenon that results from increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions on land. As carbon dioxide is absorbed, a series of chemical reactions causes an increase in acidity. This leads to many detrimental effects on marine organisms reverberate up the food chain. One reason ocean acidification remains a grand challenge is because of

Why Causal Correlations are Applicable to Quantum Mechanics Marc Domingo, Nathan Ree, Thao Vy Le

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

When the concept of causality is thought of within a non-physics based context, it is typically thought of as the relationship between “cause” and “effect” or simply as the idea that something results in a subsequent event occurring. However, when brought into the context of physics, one must account for the two types of mechanics

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