14岁的Miles Wu赢得25 000美元,用于在救灾需要的启发下,利用折纸设计超坚固、可折叠的住所。
Fourteen-year-old Miles Wu won $25,000 for inventing ultra-strong, foldable shelters using origami, inspired by disaster relief needs.
来自纽约市的 14 岁的 Miles Wu 在赛默飞世尔科技青少年创新者挑战赛中赢得了 25,000 美元,以表彰他使用折纸原理设计超强、可折叠的结构,他的模型支撑着其重量的 9,000 多倍。
Fourteen-year-old Miles Wu of New York City won $25,000 at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for designing ultra-strong, foldable structures using origami principles, with his models supporting over 9,000 times their weight.
他的研究受到Miura-ori的启发,旨在使迅速部署的救灾庇护所成为可能。
His research, inspired by the Miura-ori fold, aims to enable rapid-deployment disaster relief shelters.
这次比赛由科学学会举办, 获奖30名决赛者来自近2000名申请人, 获奖总额超过100 000美元,
The competition, organized by Society for Science, honored 30 finalists from nearly 2,000 applicants, awarding over $100,000 in total and $1,000 grants to each finalist’s school.
其他获奖者包括用于低成本文本到语音眼镜的Akhil Nagori和Evann Sun、在AI科学家图像中暴露性别偏见的Peter Fernández Dulay和用于波多黎各登革热抗体研究的Camila Isabel Gonzalez-Thompson。
Other winners included Akhil Nagori and Evann Sun for low-cost text-to-speech glasses, Peter Fernández Dulay for exposing gender bias in AI scientist images, and Camila Isabel Gonzalez-Thompson for dengue antibody research in Puerto Rico.