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| Jerry - My name is Jerry Han, I am currently in twelve at Sir Winston Chuchill Secondary School. Me and my parents immigrated to America when I was five, and then to Canada a few years later. I am currently captrain of my schools robotics team, orchestra and music council. I have volunteered as a councellor for a summer camp at Brock University, as well as many school related fund raisers. My hobbies include biking, fishing and video games. I was inspired by my project due to the recent disaters in Japan involving a neuclear meltdown. Me and my partner seek to make future cleanup of situations like this safer for the workers. Our plans for further development of our robot is to get a patent and funding, so our prototype can be modified and deployed into further radiation cleanup situations. | | Angela - Angela Gaiero is a student at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School located in St. Catharines Ontario, where she participates as a very active member on her schools robotics team. She is a captain, driver, programmer and engineer. She has travelled with the team to over 15 competitions where they have won various awards. Three of the competitions she has attended were World Championship events (2009-2011). Their team was very successful finishing overall within the top 11 each year. Her interest in robotics started in grades 7 and 8 where she led her team of four to a silver medal at the Ontario Skills Canada Competition. Through her participation over the years she has had the opportunity to expand on my passion and love for engineering, which led her into the Brock University science mentorship program. She would go with her partner up to Brock every afternoon to access the resources possible for her project “Autonomous Gamma and Beta Radiation Detection and Mapping Robot”. Her partner and she got the inspiration for this project in early 2011 just after the disaster had occurred in Japan and they searched for a way to aid the situation. |
| Jerry Han, Angela Gaiero
Autonomous Gamma and Beta Radiation Detection and Mapping Robot
| Challenge: | Innovation | | Category: | Senior | | Region: | Niagara | | City: | St. Catherines, ON, St. Catharines, ON | | School: | Sir Winston Churchill | | Abstract: | Using the latest electronic components, we have designed, built and programmed a fully functional prototype of a robot to be deployed in areas with radiation contamination targeted for clean-up. Our robot can autonomously explore a contaminated site, supplying live data through radio as well as record a map of the area based on radiation levels. |
| Awards | Value | Excellence Award - Senior
Bronze Medal
Sponsor: Nuclear Waste Management Organization | $300.00 | University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship
Senior Bronze Medallist - $1000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: University of Ottawa | $1 000.00 | Western University Scholarship
Bronze Medallist - $1000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: Western University | $1 000.00 | | Total | $2 300.00 | |
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