The Carbon Buster

Valley Catholic Middle School

Concept: It's a real-time game app to address over-usage of electricity by families –especially those with children–which causes increased carbon emissions because families need a way to conserve energy consciously and be motivated to make saving electricity a habit.

Sahana Srinivasan

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Team Moss

Tumwater Middle School

Concept: It's a vertical moss garden (moss panel) to address air pollution because people in the city of Portland need a way to reduce air pollution in a cost effective manner.

Anjali Sanjeepan, Sahit Jayaweera, Brendan McHenry

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YoungMinds

Tumwater Middle School and Stoller Middle School

Concept: It’s an optimization method delivered through an app that allows users to receive personalized charging recommendations to maximize the lifetime of their EV’s battery.

Anusha Jeyakumar, Nivedha Sathishkumar, Sahana Muthaiya

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Slicers

Evergreen Middle School

Concept: It’s a recycling program using stacked bins to address plastics that are left unsorted because everyone in the community needs a way to sort plastics.

Ethan Holt, Shaayan Sinha, Sahil Shah

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The Greenhouse Girls

Deep Creek Damascus

Concept: It’s a greenhouse gas closed loop filter system to capture Co2 emissions because people need a way to slow climate change and increase air quality.

Abby Havel, Jemma Smeretskiy, Harlie Boyd

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C-Quester

South Salem High School

Concept: It's a novel furnace filter that utilizes a proprietary soda lime technology to sequester carbon dioxide to address the lack of available technology, awareness, and affordability because homeowners and business giants need a way to reduce their carbon footprint on an affordable scale.

Mihir Joshi

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EnviroHelp

Jesuit High School

Concept: It's a free, easy-to-use, and widely accessible mobile application that efficiently and accurately diagnoses crop diseases to increase human food security and heal/protect the environment.

Samyak Shrimali

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Omega Inc.

Southridge High School

Concept: It’s a rechargeable battery pack to address the waste created by alkaline batteries because large scale battery users, such as  theaters, need a way to power their existing devices in a way that mitigates environmental damage created by hazardous battery waste.

Tobin Geren-Mori

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Eco-Informant

Westview High School

Concept: It’s an analysis tool that provides environmental information to its users to address fast fashion policy, because policymakers need a way to efficiently find common trends and topics in sustainability reports to make guided environmental policy decisions.

Srinidhi Gubba and Jaanya Chadha

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Green Sikka

Oregon Episcopal School

Concept: It’s an alternative to cryptocurrency to address climate change because the world needs a way to rapidly get off fossil fuels and mitigate climate change.

Arun Sharma

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