Smart Sticker
Location
United States
Team Name:
S.I.S. Robotic Revolution
Team Number:
2202
Team Description:
Our team is comprised of students from the Shelton Public School District in Shelton, Connecticut including Shelton Intermediate School and Perry Hill School. We range from the ages of eleven to thirteen in grades 6, 7, and 8. Our Team has worked since September to edit and revise our robot missions, team spirit, and research project presentation. We always try our hardest in competitions and even in practice. As a team, we work excellent together, have fun, disagree, and then agree again. At our Regional Qualifying competition we won the Champions award, which led us to the Connecticut States where we won the Best Innovative Solution Award. We are very excited about the possibilities that our "Smart Sticker" idea has that can change the world of food safety that we live in.
Team Location:
Shelton Connecticut 06484
United StatesCategory:
Storage
Brief Submission Description:
The "Smart Sticker" idea came from our experience with the major power outages this past fall in the Northeast. Many grocery stores experienced power loss, so even refrigerated food became undependable and unpredictable. The "Smart Sticker" is placed on the outside of a refrigerated food container(e.g., an egg carton) and has a positive color (green) indicating that the food has been properly stored at the appropriate temperature for the life of the product throughout its transportation and storage. If the food is left outside the acceptable temperature range for an extended period of time, the sticker will irreversibly change color (red) to indicate that possible food contamination may have occurred. If the food is placed back into appropriate temperature storage, the sticker will NOT change back to its original green color. This "Smart Sticker" was originally designed to protect eggs, but additional research has allowed us to alter its use for other products.
Team Website
http://smartsticker.wordpress.com/
