Nuclear Fusion Reactor — Thiago Olsen
I was looking at many different tech fair projects online and couldn't seem to find anything until I found this project. This is really creative and smart considering that it was made by a 15 year old boy. This boy really could make a change if he continued with coming up with good ideas.
This boy only had a budget of 3.500 dollars. This Michigan high school student Thiago Olsen managed to build a nuclear fusion reactor in the back of his garage when he was only 15 years old. it took him a lot of studying to be able to do this project. He read a lot of physics text books, he used vacuum pump manuals and searched the internet for the best deals he could find to buy parts that he could use in his project. His device is unfortunate not self - sustaining and produces fusion but only on a small scale. This project, idea and device is pretty impressive for any kind of teenager.
Thirteen-year-olds Jamal Dudley and Tariq Sewell said they like technology.
“The part that excites me the most is you can use your imagination,” Jamal said about why the pair built a recycling robot—a robot that picks up recyclable materials and deposits them into appropriate bins.
“In our classrooms, people don’t use the recycling bins correctly,” Jamal said. “There would be…food in all of them and paper in the plastics [bin] and plastics in the paper bin. We can correct that.”
It took the two DeKalb Academy of Technology and Environment students two days to build and program the robot, made of pieces from the Lego NXT Mindstorm setup box.
“We’re not lying; it took us two days,” Tariq said. “We use our time wisely.”
The recycling robot was one of 186 projects in the 2014 DeKalb County School District (DCSD)Technology Fair held Feb. 8 at Elizabeth Andrews High School in Stone Mountain.
http://thechampionnewspaper.com/news/local/dekalb-tech-fair-attracts-186-projects/
http://thechampionnewspaper.com/news/local/dekalb-tech-fair-attracts-186-projects/
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