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| Rowan Harris-Stoertz is a grade 8 student at Children’s Montessori School in Peterborough, Ontario. She loves cats, computer programming, robotics, fencing, carpentry, reading, and crafts of all kinds (especially balloon twisting). She has 3 cats, 12 chickens, and she plays the flute. She hopes to find a career involving software design, robotics, engineering, and creativity. She loves all animals, and when she learned that many K-9 police dogs don't have protective vests due to the prohibitive cost, she decided to try to make inexpensive protective vests for K-9s. |
| Rowan Harris-Stoertz
Protecting the Protectors: Making K9 Body Armour from Recycled Fabrics
| Challenge: | Innovation | | Category: | Junior | | Region: | Peterborough | | City: | Lakefield, ON | | School: | The Children’s Montessori & Preparatory School Inc. | | Abstract: | Most police dogs don't have protective vests due to the prohibitive cost. I sought to develop an inexpensive but effective vest from recycled fabric and hide glue, inspired by historical cloth armours. I tested several kinds of cloth using the National Institute of Justice standards for ballistic and stabbing tests. My best samples were effective against knives, the most common threat in small-town Ontario. |
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