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Representing the US as a finalist in Google’s upcoming Science Fair this september will be 14 year-old Trisha Prabhu and her anti-cyberbullying programs.
Her software can analyze a message before it’s posted to determine if it might be hurtful in nature followed by her “Re-Think” software which interrupts the user to inform them of the concern and give them the option to send the message anyway.
It’s thought that bullies often are unaware of their actions and so this program aims to investigate that.
Trisha will be competing against 17 year-old Hayley Todesco from Calgary who we featured earlier.
After the mixed results that Entrepreneur Barbie received this year, engineers Supriya Hobbs and Janna Eaves are launching their own inspirational dolls.
The Miss Possible line will be based on trailblazers in math and science, starting with Nobel Physicist Marie Curie, African-American aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman, and (of course!) Ada Lovelace.
The dolls will be packaged with apps to encourage an interest in their related fields of math, engineering, and science.
Naomi Kizhner says she wants to shock people a bit with her series of concept tech jewelry that pierces human skin to absorb the body’s resources as sources of power.
The E-Pulse Connector is pierced over the spine where it would intercept electric signals from the brain.
The Blood Bridge taps into veins to allow the flow of blood to turn a kinetic wheel.
And Blinker is a nose piercing powered by the movement of your eyelids when they blink.
