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Working with Wastewater

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

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hAPPy: Mental Health Application

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our application’s purpose is to provide an opportunity to the average person in educating themselves on how their habitual tendencies effect their mental health and encourage healthy practices. hAppy: Mental Health Application Poster

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Eradicating the Stigma

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our Grand Challenge Initiative throughout the past three semesters has been to create ways to reduce transmission of HIV, as well as create ways in which adolescents are more drawn to learning about sexual health. Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Eradicating the Stigma Poster

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Teaching Ocean Acidification

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

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Why Causal Correlations are Applicable to Quantum Mechanics

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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AR in Music Education

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Over the past couple of years, more and more schools have continuously cut funding for music programs around the country. This increase in budget cuts can be seen affecting students by not allowing students at a young age to be creative, which discourages them as they continue their education to think within boundaries consistently. The

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Building Empathy for the Colorblind with Virtual Reality

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our goal is to increase empathy for people that are colorblind and work towards positive social change by creating an educational virtual reality (VR) game. In our VR game, there are multiple mini-game scenarios in which the player must complete an everyday task as someone who is colorblind, such as distinguishing between traffic light colors

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Thymol Oil and Imidacloprid Used as an Alternative Pesticide to Reduce Bee Population Decline

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our group focused on the declining bee population, which has been a source of concern for the agricultural industry. Although pollinators are made up of a diverse variety of species, bees perform a majority of pollination, specifically in agriculture. The decline of bee pollinators inevitably has decreased crop yield, which is disadvantageous from an environmental

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LUNA: Accessible Water For All

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

We took on the problem of providing something can be used in water bottles and eventually sinks in order to provide clean drinking water for people who struggle to get it around the world. LUNA: Accessible Water For All Poster

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