Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
Anushka Naiknaware: A invenção de uma cientista adolescente que ajuda a curar feridas
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 --
sempre fui fascinada...
the world worked exactly how it did.
o mundo funciona da maneira que funciona.
of mathematics and chemistry.
da Matemática e da Química.
and as I kept going,
e à medida que avançava,
of science are interconnected.
da ciência estavam interligadas.
have little or no value.
tinham pouco ou nenhum valor.
and my local science museum,
e pelo museu de ciência local,
these questions myself
estas perguntas eu própria
pesquisa independente,
of my garage or my bedroom.
ou do meu quarto.
that I so desperately wanted.
que eu desejava desesperadamente.
for a competition,
para uma competição,
of something called chronic wounds.
chamado "feridas crónicas".
to me was a statistic
foi uma estatística
in the United States with chronic wounds
nos EUA com feridas crónicas
with breast cancer,
com cancro da mama,
and leukemia, combined.
e leucemia, tudo junto.
about a 5K walk for chronic wounds,
de uma caminhada contra isto,?
about a chronic wound in general?
ouvimos falar disto, em geral?
those preliminary questions,
estas questões preliminares,
when someone gets a normal wound,
uma pessoa tem uma ferida normal,
de problema de saúde pré-existente
of preexisting condition,
were to be found
mais desconcertantes
com esta investigação.
to treat chronic wounds.
no mundo para tratar feridas crónicas.
that about two percent of the population
de 2% da população
at some point in their lifetime.
ao longo da sua vida.
inside a wound dressing
that the chronic wound would be at.
a ferida crónica possa estar.
within the wound
treat their wounds better.
a tratar melhor das feridas?
o processo de cura.
the healing process.
que me propus a fazer.
out of her garage-turned-lab,
transformada em laboratório,
I wasn't given a lot of money,
uma bolsa, muito dinheiro,
a lot of criteria, as well.
eu também tinha muitos critérios.
readily interacting with the body,
diretamente com o corpo,
and paying for it myself.
e a financiá-lo eu própria.
anywhere, for anyone.
em todo o lado, para todos.
is the early schematics in my design,
um esquema inicial da minha invenção,
and also one stacking variant.
de empilhamento.
of different individual parts
em diferentes partes individuais
is one possible arrangement.
a sua possível organização.
stumbles along their work,
durante o seu trabalho,
in my first generation of sensors.
com os meus primeiros sensores.
into a printcheck cartridge
num cartucho de impressão
the sensitivity of my sensors.
a sensibilidade dos sensores.
para cima ou para baixo,
anything of that sort.
by some scouting on eBay and Amazon
ao pesquisar no eBay e Amazon
required a lot more thought.
de mais pensamento.
de espaço faz
within one unit square.
dentro de uma unidade quadrada.
you can have different iterations
podemos ter iterações diferentes
to one unit square,
mas nunca a alcança.
the thickness, the size,
a grossura, o tamanho...
and I could predict my results.
e podia prever os resultados.
from previous science fair awards.
de prémios científicos anteriores.
in order to be read.
de modo a poderem ser lidos.
com um "chip" de Bluetooth,
by the app screenshots on the right.
através de imagens da aplicação.
can monitor the progress of their wound,
monitorizar o progresso da sua ferida,
over a wireless connection
por uma ligação sem fios
or whoever needs it.
ou qualquer pessoa que precise.
was successful --
teve sucesso...
something to be refined.
alguma coisa para melhorar.
in the process of doing.
do que a invenção em si
than the actual thing I designed
taken on while doing this.
enquanto a inventava.
e trabalhar na minha garagem
working in her garage
completely understand,
and contribute to the field.
e contribuir para a área.
to also do work like this
a fazer este tipo de trabalho
very sure about it.
muitas certezas acerca disso.
uma mensagem que levem hoje.
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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