Three Palestinian girls win applied electronics award in Intel International Science Fair
Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada traveled to San Jose from the West Bank to represent Palestine in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last week. The competition is the largest pre-college science fair in the world.
The three 14-year-olds attend a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school located at Aska Refugee Camp in Nablus where their project was developed from concept to prototype. It began as a simple idea, born of necessity, in a region where streets and sidewalks are seldom smoothly paved and obstacles such as holes and debris pose significant challenges for the visually impaired. The girls developed an electronic obstacle-detecting walking stick which senses the terrain ahead and informs the user by various non visual signals.
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The three 14-year-olds attend a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school located at Aska Refugee Camp in Nablus where their project was developed from concept to prototype. It began as a simple idea, born of necessity, in a region where streets and sidewalks are seldom smoothly paved and obstacles such as holes and debris pose significant challenges for the visually impaired. The girls developed an electronic obstacle-detecting walking stick which senses the terrain ahead and informs the user by various non visual signals.
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