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06/07/2010 by Erinn Gormley (comments: 0)
Watching the local news has become a depressing evening ritual, but a story featured the other night gave me a glimmer of hope for humanity and the potential of our youth. As a freshman in high school I simply tried to survive, but Jonny Cohen from a Chicago suburb has already taken a physics class at Northwestern University that inspired a big idea. Jonny realized that school buses are one of the least aerodynamically designed vehicles on the road, contributing to very low fuel efficiency and high pollution rates. (I may also have a personal gripe with the school bus making stops every 20 feet that I get stuck behind on the way to work every day). Contemplating this real world physics problem, Cohen worked with his family, classmates, and other knowledgeable contacts to invent Green Shields, a plexiglass shield added to the front of the bus to more effectively channel the wind flow to create a 10-40% improvement in fuel efficiency.
Of course this sounds simple, but most people wouldn’t put in the time or effort to develop such an idea. The impressive 14 year old has created quite a following, and is so dedicated to his project that he recently received a $25,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project to fund its development.
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