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EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

PROJECT SUMMARY

I would have to say that this project mainly is about finding out how much we can cook with a solar oven when our weather is showing high temperatures. What I did was: built a solar oven using aluminium foil, plastic film, black piece of plastic folder, pizza box, glue, scissors and ruler. i found out that the solar oven works better with high temperatures, and also found out that when it is cloudy my solar oven did not cook at all.

WHY?

I did this project because I wanted to see what happened with whatever I put inside the oven, and how the sun made his heat cook things. The question I was trying to solve was if the energy of the sun could cook things inside the solar oven.

HOW?

I created my project thinking that a black paper, a box, and aluminum foil could contain the heat from the sun.

WHAT?

I found out that when the sun is hot or with a high temperature, things can get melted or even cooked. But, if the heat or temperature of the sun is low, it can barely melt something small. My prototype worked fine when there were high temperatures. But I did not have good results when the day was cloudy, not so hot, and the temperature was not so elevated. For example, I tried to cook small chipa with low temperatures outside, and it did not cook the chipa properly. But, when there was a high temperature, I could see that my small chipa got cooked.

SO WHAT?

My results are important because I can see that when the temperature of the sun is high, I can cook in my solar oven. But, if it is cloudy or rainy and the temperature is low, my solar oven does not work.

WHAT'S NEXT?

I think that I could have isolated the box much better and make sure to cook only on sunny days. My next steps would probably be to give my solar oven an upgrade with a better isolation and choose only days when it is really hot.

REFERENCES/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My ideas were inspired from the soldiers of World War Two when they fought in Africa and with the hot weather and temperatures of the country, they could make their own food using the high temperatures.

JUDGES FEEDBACK

This project is very cool and unique in that you created a piece of technology that can effectively cook food just using energy that comes from the Sun compared to alternate sources such as electricity or gas. As a result, you could maybe be more efficient with the amount of electricity or gas that you use by using your solar cooker on sunny days! Maybe next time you could provide videos or pictures of your solar cooker in action or talk about other designs that might make it more efficient.

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