Rubinstein (right), Glam and Resisi with the patrol car, yesterday in the city
Direct link to this page: https://www.hayadan.org.il/younginvestors1.html
Three high school students mobilized their creativity to solve a problem that was bothering their kibbutz. At the young scientists competition, held at the Science Museum in Jerusalem, they presented a tiny, computerized patrol vehicle. They believe that within a few years he may replace the patrol guards patrolling the settlements, the schools and the military bases.
The small vehicle invented by the three - Gilad Resisi, Tal Rubinstein and Elad Glam from the "Maayan Shahar" school in Kibbutz Ein Horesh in Emek Hafer - is equipped with a video camera and sensors. Using software developed by the students, the vehicle is supposed to patrol around the settlement's fence, and alert the computerized hotline of any intruder captured by the thermal camera lens. The idea came to the minds of the three following a wave of break-ins in the area: "We live on the seam line, and we have often had break-ins for security or criminal reasons. This vehicle should help prevent break-ins and alert them," said Rubinstein. Rasisi added: "Our basic idea was to replace the patrolling guard around the settlement and prevent the possibility of him being harmed."
The SUV is just one of 39 projects currently on display at the museum. 56 teenagers who submitted outstanding theses for matriculation entered the competition, which is being held in Jerusalem for the seventh year. Alongside models of future devices, research works in other fields are also presented at the exhibition: history, humanities and life sciences.
A student at the Amit Rananim school in Ra'anana, developed a device to immediately lower the body temperature of patients. "In a study conducted in Denmark two years ago, it was discovered that stroke patients who cooled their bodies lived six months longer than those whose body temperature did not change," explained Wilder. "For breast cancer patients whose heads are cold after chemotherapy, no hair falls out. Such a facility may also help wounded soldiers in the field, because cooling also helps to slow down the rate of blood flow in the body." The device she developed contains an electronic component called a plate, which is also used to cool spaceships that cross the atmosphere on their way back to Israel. It is placed on the patients' forehead or on a main artery, and cools the body to a predetermined temperature.
Another medical project was also presented at the exhibition: a study that examined how it is possible to freeze the ovaries of cancer patients who have undergone chemotherapy, in order to fertilize them at a later date. Reut Cohen, Tehila Lavi and Reut Soliman conducted the study at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. The results of the research will be integrated into the project of the in vitro fertilization unit at the hospital.
Nancy Ebo, a XNUMXth grader at the Orthodox high school in Ramla, investigated the connection between the teacher's self-image and the discipline problems that were discovered in his class. Her research encompassed the schools of the Arab population in Ramla and Lod. The findings she discovered are clear: the higher the teacher's self-esteem, the lower the rate of discipline problems in the classroom. To his credit, it also turned out that female teachers report more discipline problems in the classroom than their fellow teachers, and the older the teacher, the less the students disrupt his lessons. Abu believes that through the results of the research it will be possible to reduce discipline problems in the classrooms.
The director of the museum, Mia Halevi, said yesterday that before each competition there is a long process to locate the outstanding students and their works. "Our goal is to expose the youth and train them," she said. "We contact every student in Israel who is doing a thesis, through the school and ask to examine their work. The meeting here exposed the youth to scientists and opened a door for them to the scientific community."
The winners of this year's competition will participate in two world competitions. The first, the traditional exhibition of "Intel" in the United States, in which 1,500 teenagers from all over the world participate; The second competition is organized by the European Union, in which outstanding students from 30 countries take part. Today the names of the winners of the competition will be announced at the President's House in Jerusalem.
Jonathan Lis, Haaretz, voila!
https://www.hayadan.org.il/BuildaGate4/general2/data_card.php?Cat=~~~801560853~~~226&SiteName=hayadan
