2006
Tornado Awareness and Survival Madison County 4-H Club Danielsville, GA Problem: Little preparation time prior to a tornado. Solution: Tornado Survival program – education program to help build community awareness of things they need to be prepared for a tornado. At an awards ceremony held at Walt Disney World, two of the finalist teams received […]
H.O.T. Band Hesperia Junior High School Hesperia, CA Problem: Wheelchair-bound people have difficulty accessing a cell phone, reaching it and using it. Solution: A wristband made of Velcro that would hold a cell phone to allow hands-free functioning and portability for people with disabilities. At an awards ceremony held at Walt Disney World, two of […]
A.C.M.E. Disaster Masters Memorial Park Middle School Fort Wayne, IN Problem: Disaster preparedness needs to be communicated to citizens of the community. Solution: Send home information with students (pamphlet), put up billboards, make TV and radio commercials and place ads in the newspapers. Inspired by the plight of so many who have been affected by […]
Fire Escape Island Trees Middle School Levittown, NY Problem: Delay in emergency response when there is a fire. Solution: A fire extinguisher that sets off an alarm when picked up and deployed to alert others in the home of the potential danger. The finalist teams were judged for the practicality of implementing their idea. The […]
James C. Hughes Farmingdale High School Farmingdale, NY The recipient of the seventh annual Freida J. Riley Teacher Award is James C. Hughes, an 11th grade teacher of United States History, Humanities 11 and Advanced Placement U.S. History at Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale, NY. Blind since the age of three from a hereditary form of […]
Donna H. Branson, Ph.D. Regents Professor and Director Institute of Protective Apparel Research and Technology Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma Dr. Donna H. Branson is Director of the Institute of Protective Apparel Research and Technology and Regents Professor at Oklahoma State University. She co-led an industry-academic team of researchers from 2001-2004 to develop a prototype […]
National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors 2006 Inductees Stanley Chiang, Age 18 – Fabrication of Novel Superconducting Josephson Junctions to Couple Multiple Flux States of a Quantum Bit In 2004 Stanley combined two interests – applied physics and super conductivity – in a study of the quantum bit (qubit), the unit of memory in a […]
