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Teenage Success Stories, World Changing Innovators
- from Alefiyah Vahanvaty
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- Stroudsburg Area High School
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With this day in age, there are vast amounts of teenagers, all across America, especially around the world, who are coming up with world changing ideas, creations, and inventions. But you wonder, how did they come so far? Where did they start? How were they able to do what they did?
Well, below I will share with you links, ideas, and so much more, so that maybe you can get a little bit of inspiration of your own. Want to start a new business? Build a more effective app? Create a new pancreatic test for cancer treatment? The world is yours!
Jack Andraka: The teen prodigy of pancreatic cancer
Description: A high school sophomore who invented an early inexpensive detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. He has earned numerous awards, and worldwide recognition
Link:
http://www.jackandraka.com/about
To look at more science prodigies, their inventions, and how they created what they did, go on Google Science Fair:
https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/
How did Jack Andraka reach his accomplishment?:
Goal: created a criteria for having a sensor that is inexpensive, rapid, simple, selective, and minimally invasive.
1.Used resources of Google and Wikipedia, to find an article listing 8,000 different types of proteins that are found in pancreatic cancer
2.Mission was to go through all of these different proteins, and see which ones would serve as a biomarker for pancreatic cancer. Protein would have to be found in high levels in the blood stream, and found in all pancreatic cancers, especially in the earliest stages
3.Found the protein called mesothelin
4.Was having a biology class about antibodies and reading an article about carbon nanotubes
5.Inspiration in the head moment!!! Thought about how if he weaved a bunch of these antibodies into a network of carbon nanotubes, you would have a network that would still have a reaction to one type of protein. But, due to the properties of the nanotubes, it will change the electrical properties of the the amount of protein present.
6.Since carbon nanotubes are flimsy, he will have to use paper for support
7.Idea of making a cancer test strip paper out of paper. Pour some antibodies and carbon nanotubes inside some water. Mix it up, dip the paper in, and you get a test strip for pancreatic cancer
8.Emailed his procedure and idea to 200 different professors at John Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health
9.Only one the professors accepted his idea, and let him do research/testing for his test strip for pancreatic cancer
Ishaan Patel: Founder of Planting Pencils, a non profit
Description: founder of an organization called Planting Pencils. The charity raises money and collects school supplies for underserved and underfunded schools in America, and in the world.
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How did Ishaan reach his accomplishment?:
1.Started to ask classmates,teachers, and his community to donate pencils, crayons, rulers, calculators, used computers, laptops, and books. Had the goal of donating the supplies to Connecticut
2.Contacting schools
3.Petitioned state legislatures and the United Nations to gain their support
4.He and his parents formed Planting Pencils as a legal 5013 charity, to ensure that it wasn't just a one time effort, but a truly long term commitment to help improve the lives of children.
Sophie Houser, and Andy Gonzalez: Inventor of an app known as Tampon Run
Description : founder of an app, where a character runs down the street and shoots tampons, and the enemies can't confiscate your tampons. It was created to discuss the taboo of menstruation in an accessible way.
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How did Sophie and Andy reach their accomplishment:?
They created this app at a summer program called Girls Who Code, a non profit organization that is trying to close the gender gap in technology.