Researcher to Participate in Summer Technology Camp in the US
The second place winner of the 2020 Millennium Innovation Competition, ''Researcher'', will participate in the Summer Technology Camp in the United States with funding from the Georgian Agency for Innovation and Technology (GITA). The winners were hosted by GITA Chairman Avtandil Kasradze at the Technopark.
The team "Researcher" is composed of students from Sagarejo and Tbilisi public schools. They created an ecological nephelometer that can determine and monitor the amount of dust particles in the environment. The device is a system organized around the Arduino IB, which uses a variety of modules and devices to provide a measurement process with time-defined sequences and software algorithms. The mechanism and principle of product operation are drastically different from existing expensive measuring instruments. It combines both gravimetric and nephelometric methods.
The Millennium Innovation Competition has been running since 2014, with the financial support of the US Embassy, and aims to encourage high school students to innovate and create new technologies. The teams participating in the competition will present their projects in the fields of science, engineering and technology (STEM), in areas such as: space and aviation; Robotics; Mobile technologies and applications; Environmental protection; Health and nutrition.