Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
Anushka Naiknaware: L'invention d'une scientifique ado pour guérir les plaies
In 2016, at age 13, Anushka Naiknaware was the youngest winner of the Google Science Fair, with her invention of a clever new bandage that tells caregivers when it needs to be changed. Full bio
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I was always fascinated --
je suis fascinée...
et plus petite.
the world worked exactly how it did.
le monde marche.
of mathematics and chemistry.
des mathématiques et de la chimie.
and as I kept going,
of science are interconnected.
la science étaient interconnectés.
have little or no value.
que peu ou pas de valeur.
and my local science museum,
par le musée des sciences local,
these questions myself
ces questions moi-même
mes propres recherches indépendantes,
of my garage or my bedroom.
mon garage ou ma chambre.
des articles de revues,
that I so desperately wanted.
que je voulais désespérément.
for a competition,
l'anatomie pour un concours,
of something called chronic wounds.
qui s'appelle les plaies chroniques.
to me was a statistic
était une statistique,
in the United States with chronic wounds
de personnes avec des plaies chroniques
with breast cancer,
avec le cancer du sein,
and leukemia, combined.
et la leucémie, ensemble.
qu'une plaie chronique ?
about a 5K walk for chronic wounds,
de marches pour ces blessures?
de plaies chroniques en général ?
about a chronic wound in general?
those preliminary questions,
ces questions préliminaires,
when someone gets a normal wound,
quand quelqu'un a une blessure normale,
à guérir normalement
of preexisting condition,
des cas, est le diabète.
were to be found
impressionnantes
to treat chronic wounds.
dans le monde entier
that about two percent of the population
qu'environ 2% de la population
at some point in their lifetime.
à un moment de sa vie.
inside a wound dressing
that the chronic wound would be at.
de la plaie chronique.
de concevoir quelque chose
within the wound
treat their wounds better.
patients à mieux soigner leurs blessures.
the healing process.
le processus curatif.
out of her garage-turned-lab,
garage aménagé comme laboratoire,
I wasn't given a lot of money,
et donc peu d'argent
a lot of criteria, as well.
de critères d'acceptabilité.
readily interacting with the body,
interagir avec le corps,
and paying for it myself.
d'investir moi-même.
être produit en masse,
anywhere, for anyone.
n'importe où, pour tous.
is the early schematics in my design,
mon premier schéma,
and also one stacking variant.
mais aussi de l'assemblage.
of different individual parts
par assemblage des différentes pièces
is one possible arrangement.
un des montages possibles.
stumbles along their work,
des obstacles durant leurs recherches,
in my first generation of sensors.
avec mes premiers capteurs.
into a printcheck cartridge
dans une cartouche d'imprimante
the sensitivity of my sensors.
de mes capteurs.
ni la réduire,
anything of that sort.
des recherches sur eBay et Amazon
by some scouting on eBay and Amazon
required a lot more thought.
a nécessité plus de réflexion.
within one unit square.
disponible sur une superficie.
you can have different iterations
vous pouvez avoir différentes itérations
to one unit square,
de plus en plus d'une superficie,
the thickness, the size,
l'épaisseur, la taille,
and I could predict my results.
et prédire mes résultats.
à construire mes capteurs,
from previous science fair awards.
des concours précédents.
in order to be read.
ces informations afin de pouvoir les lire.
by the app screenshots on the right.
la capture d'écran sur la droite.
can monitor the progress of their wound,
de suivre l'état de sa blessure
over a wireless connection
une connexion sans fil
or whoever needs it.
quiconque en a besoin.
was successful --
mon projet était fructueux.
something to be refined.
à améliorer.
in the process of doing.
à faire actuellement.
than the actual thing I designed
au-delà de mon projet,
taken on while doing this.
en le réalisant.
working in her garage
qui travaille dans un garage
completely understand,
je ne comprends pas complètement,
and contribute to the field.
donner une contribution au secteur.
to also do work like this
d'autres de travailler ainsi,
very sure about it.
that you all take on today.
aujourd'hui.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anushka Naiknaware - ScientistIn 2016, at age 13, Anushka Naiknaware was the youngest winner of the Google Science Fair, with her invention of a clever new bandage that tells caregivers when it needs to be changed.
Why you should listen
When Anushka Naiknaware was young, she would spend hours at the chemistry lab at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland and not leave until she had finished every experiment available. Her early interest was chemistry and mathematics, but she quickly learned that every branch of science is connected, including physics, biology and computer science. In fact, her winning Google Science Fair project loops together materials science, fractal math and biology.
Naiknaware has won many awards in notable science and math competitions. She was the youngest winner of the Google Science Fair in 2016, and she won the first-place Mathematics STEM Award at Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering Rising Stars), a premier competition run by the Society for Science and the Public. Naiknaware is inspired by Marie Curie, whose work contributed to major advances in modern medicine. Anushka admires her spirit and enthusiasm to continue her work in a time when women's contributions in science weren't appreciated.
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