iRisk

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What inspired our innovation was not only the huge HIV epidemic in America, but someone very close to me was recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and became very sick as of late last year. The doctors estimate that that person has had it for the past 10-15 years and they were completely unaware. This just goes to show the importance of testing and protecting your health, so together we can save lives. I wanted to collaborate with my team in order to create something that would be revolutionary in protecting our health. A lot of people don't realize that transmission of HIV is not only by intercourse, you can also get it through sharing needles and through tattoos. What we learned during this project was how to work as a team cooperatively and how to adapt to the quick learning and research of the MITTIC requirements. We also learned a lot more about these STDs and have gotten comfortable talking and kind of decreasing the taboo within ourselves as well. We built our project based on the idea of a high blood sugar device and also the Nana-senor array technology used by NASA in medical diagnoses. We are integrating the 4 Nano-Sensor chips into the device for these specific diseases. Some of the challenges we faced during this project come from engineering issues and how to fix the problem to be able to use this device between partners. This means we can't actually have blood come in contact with the inside of the device, so we have to engineer the device to use disposable needles and testing strips. Another problem we came across is the disposing of the used needles and strips because in a regular trash can they would be a biohazard, from this we came of with a biohazard bag which is bright orange so that users can dispose properly without further spreading the disease. The next step for iRisk is to Commercialize and produce but before that, we want to win the inventhon and Submit to NASA to furhter our project.

Built With

• nanosensor-array
• nasa