Dehydration sensor shines at science fair
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A Grade 10 student at Medicine Hat High School is one of 61 high school students across Canada to be recognized for completing a STEM project that has commercial potential.
Debasri Jena won the Ted Rogers Innovation Award with her dehydration sensor project at the Kiwanis Southeast Alberta Regional Science Fair.
“It was pretty cool, I actually had no clue until someone said, ‘Hey you should check your email’ and I found out that I won,” said Jena with a laugh. “I was really excited.”
Jena took extracts from different fruits and vegetables including blueberries, red cabbage and turnips and turned them into a solution. She then put pH buffers in to test the colour change between them and used a substance called agar in place of human skin.