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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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Protective Detective: Gamifying Cyber Safety Education

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Educational kids’ game called Protective Detective that helps inform middle schoolers about the importance of cyber safety. The goal of this game is to introduce and emphasize internet safety practices to help them navigate this rapidly evolving digital world. Protective Detective Poster Protective Detective Module 1 Prototype

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Reinventing the Toilet

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our grand challenge is to reinvent the toilet. Contemporary flushing toilets waste an immense amount of water and also spread aerosols carrying viruses and bacteria when flushed. Through our research we discovered that vacuum toilets use roughly one-twelfth of the water per flush and also produce significantly fewer aerosols. We conducted a survey of Chapman

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Using UVC Light as an Effective Form of Sanitation

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our goal is to manage disease outbreak by using UVC light as a new, efficient yet effective form of sanitation. It is important to find a way to successfully clean commonly touched/used surfaces multiple times a day to reduce the spread while trying to help maintain good public health. Using UVC Light as an Effective

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Building the Next AI-Ready Computer

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

In our project, we sought out to improve the design of the physical computer hardware so it can be able to more efficiently run Artificial Intelligence. Building the Next AI-Ready Computer Poster

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Varying Dye Color and Nanoparticle Coating in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells for the Highest Efficiency

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

As the climate crisis emergency gains a new sense of urgency with only less than 10 years remaining until the damage becomes irreversible, the need for integrating renewable energy sources into our society becomes even more pressing. Solar panels are expensive but if we can increase their efficiency and lower their cost it would give

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Greenhouse Gas Capture by Education

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our group was tasked with finding a novel method to capture greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gas production has proliferated alongside industrial development in most countries which has induced detrimental processes concerning our environment, which to this day, is in danger due to the presence of greenhouse gases lingering in the Earth’s atmosphere. Our group now strives

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