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February 26, 2021
The program encourages high school students in innovation and invention to solve real-world problems.
“It’s pretty exciting, we’re at the final stages of this thing,” says Adam Colvin, a science teacher, Dow High School.
It all started a senior Caleb Qui visited Shanghai, China. While there, he noticed that the city was stinky and had an overwhelming number of mosquitos.
“He realized there were two issues, one it makes the big smell bad and there’s a lot of mosquitos and both of those came from the drainage system,” says Colvin.
When Qui returned, he and several other students decided to invent a drain cover to solve the problem… One that blocks the mosquitos from coming in while keeping the smelly gasses inside.