Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
Anushka Naiknaware: Wynalazek nastoletniej badaczki pomaga leczyć rany
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 --
byłam zafascynowana...
the world worked exactly how it did.
jak funkcjonuje świat.
of mathematics and chemistry.
do matematyki i chemii.
and as I kept going,
of science are interconnected.
są ze sobą powiązane.
have little or no value.
wartość innych zmaleje albo zniknie.
and my local science museum,
i pobliskim muzeum nauki
these questions myself
of my garage or my bedroom.
that I so desperately wanted.
której tak bardzo pragnęłam.
for a competition,
of something called chronic wounds.
to me was a statistic
in the United States with chronic wounds
na rany przewlekłe w Stanach Zjednoczonych
with breast cancer,
and leukemia, combined.
razem wziętych.
about a 5K walk for chronic wounds,
wspierających chorych?
about a chronic wound in general?
o ranach przewlekłych?
those preliminary questions,
when someone gets a normal wound,
gdy ktoś ma ranę,
of preexisting condition,
were to be found
to treat chronic wounds.
na leczenie ran przewlekłych.
that about two percent of the population
że około dwu procent populacji
at some point in their lifetime.
w którymś momencie życia.
wewnątrz opatrunku
inside a wound dressing
that the chronic wound would be at.
within the wound
treat their wounds better.
the healing process.
out of her garage-turned-lab,
w garażu zamienionym w laboratorium
I wasn't given a lot of money,
miałam mało pieniędzy,
a lot of criteria, as well.
readily interacting with the body,
w kontakt z ciałem,
and paying for it myself.
i ponosiłam wszelkie koszty.
anywhere, for anyone.
wszędzie i dla każdego.
is the early schematics in my design,
początkowy schemat projektu
and also one stacking variant.
jak i jedną wersję złożenia,
of different individual parts
is one possible arrangement.
stumbles along their work,
błądzący w swojej pracy
in my first generation of sensors.
z pierwszymi sensorami.
nanocząsteczkowy w drukarce
into a printcheck cartridge
wrażliwości sensorów.
the sensitivity of my sensors.
anything of that sort.
by some scouting on eBay and Amazon
strzykawki, których mogłam użyć.
required a lot more thought.
większego zastanowienia.
within one unit square.
w obrębie kwadratu jednostkowego.
you can have different iterations
można mieć różne iteracje krzywej,
to one unit square,
do granicy kwadratu,
the thickness, the size,
and I could predict my results.
i przewidzieć wyniki.
from previous science fair awards.
zdobytych w konkursach naukowych.
in order to be read.
żeby można było je odczytać.
by the app screenshots on the right.
po prawej stronie.
can monitor the progress of their wound,
over a wireless connection
or whoever needs it.
lub tego, kto ich potrzebuje.
was successful --
something to be refined.
in the process of doing.
than the actual thing I designed
taken on while doing this.
working in her garage
completely understand,
and contribute to the field.
żebym się nie poddawała.
to also do work like this
do takich badań,
very sure about it.
that you all take on today.
że zapamiętacie to przesłanie.
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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