03-15-2019, 10:25 AM
7th graders in Hawaii are contributing to a healthy environment with their design for a device which will clean up plastic in the ocean. They were selected in the first round of National Geographic's GeoChallenge contest. We've got some resourceful keiki in Hawaii:
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - At Wheeler Middle School, a team of six seventh-graders designed and built a model of their solution for cleaning up plastic pollution in the ocean.
“You’ve got two boats dragging a net that’s 5 feet above the surface. It drops down 80 feet into the water,” team member Payton Custis said.
The net would be microfiber, thinly woven with holes for fish to safely swim through to escape the garbage patch.
Wheeler’s one of only 250 schools National Geographic selected from across the U.S. The team’s teacher, Olga Dolgopolova, said that’s an impressive accomplishment.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - At Wheeler Middle School, a team of six seventh-graders designed and built a model of their solution for cleaning up plastic pollution in the ocean.
“You’ve got two boats dragging a net that’s 5 feet above the surface. It drops down 80 feet into the water,” team member Payton Custis said.
The net would be microfiber, thinly woven with holes for fish to safely swim through to escape the garbage patch.
Wheeler’s one of only 250 schools National Geographic selected from across the U.S. The team’s teacher, Olga Dolgopolova, said that’s an impressive accomplishment.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/03/15/...attention/
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