Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
Anushka Naiknaware: De uitvinding van een tiener om wonden te helpen genezen
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 --
altijd al gefascineerd --
the world worked exactly how it did.
door hoe de wereld in elkaar zat.
of mathematics and chemistry.
and as I kept going,
en zodoende realiseerde ik me
met elkaar verbonden zijn.
of science are interconnected.
have little or no value.
weinig of geen waarde.
and my local science museum,
en mijn lokale wetenschapsmuseum
these questions myself
zelf te gaan stellen
onderzoek te beginnen,
of my garage or my bedroom.
of mijn slaapkamer was.
that I so desperately wanted.
die ik zo graag wilde.
for a competition,
voor een wedstrijd,
of something called chronic wounds.
‘chronische wonden’.
to me was a statistic
was een statistiek
in the United States with chronic wounds
in de VS met chronische wonden
with breast cancer,
mensen met borstkanker,
and leukemia, combined.
about a 5K walk for chronic wounds,
een benefietloop voor chronische wonden,
about a chronic wound in general?
over chronische wonden?
those preliminary questions,
when someone gets a normal wound,
in wezen een normale wond,
of preexisting condition,
bestaande lichamelijke conditie heeft,
were to be found
to treat chronic wounds.
50 miljard dollar uitgegeven
that about two percent of the population
twee procent van de bevolking
at some point in their lifetime.
een chronische wond zal oplopen.
inside a wound dressing
that the chronic wound would be at.
van de chronische wond.
within the wound
treat their wounds better.
om die wonden beter te behandelen.
the healing process.
genezingsproces te versnellen.
out of her garage-turned-lab,
I wasn't given a lot of money,
noch veel geld of middelen had.
a lot of criteria, as well.
aan veel criteria voldoen.
readily interacting with the body,
met het lichaam zou staan,
and paying for it myself.
en ervoor betalen.
anywhere, for anyone.
en voor iedereen kon worden gemaakt.
is the early schematics in my design,
het vroege schema van mijn ontwerp,
and also one stacking variant.
alsook een doorsnede.
of different individual parts
uit verschillende afzonderlijke lagen
is one possible arrangement.
is één mogelijkheid.
stumbles along their work,
wel eens struikelen,
in my first generation of sensors.
met mijn eerste generatie sensoren.
into a printcheck cartridge
in een printcheck cartridge krijgt
over het tapijt te morsen.
the sensitivity of my sensors.
niet precies kon bepalen.
anything of that sort.
by some scouting on eBay and Amazon
door wat zoeken op eBay en Amazon
required a lot more thought.
echter veel meer denkwerk.
within one unit square.
een eenheidsvierkant in te nemen.
you can have different iterations
van verschillende curves
to one unit square,
steeds dichter benaderen,
the thickness, the size,
and I could predict my results.
en mijn resultaten voorspellen.
from previous science fair awards.
van vorige wetenschapsprijzen.
in order to be read.
met elkaar verbinden om te worden gelezen.
op een bluetooth-chip,
by the app screenshots on the right.
door de screenshots van de app rechts.
can monitor the progress of their wound,
van hun wond controleren
over a wireless connection
or whoever needs it.
of naar wie het nodig heeft.
was successful --
something to be refined.
iets om te verfijnen.
in the process of doing.
than the actual thing I designed
dan het ding dat ik ontwierp,
taken on while doing this.
al doende had aangekweekt.
working in her garage
bezig in haar garage
completely understand,
and contribute to the field.
aan het vakgebied.
to also do work like this
ook inspireert tot dergelijk werk,
very sure about it.
die jullie vandaag meekrijgen.
that you all take on today.
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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