On the occasion of the Intel Bibliotheca Alexandrina Science and Engineering Fair (Intel BASEF 2010), the BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) has selected three of the projects, which were presented during the Alex Science and Engineering Fair 2009, organized by PSC. The projects were: “Sink Safely”, “Sign Language Translator” and “Let All Control”.
This year, the PSC participated at the "Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Marketplace" under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Egyptian Prime Minister, from 26-28 January 2010, in both kids pavilion as well as student’s pavilion.
The PSC young scientists won the "Best Young Inventor" award from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which is a specialized agency of the United Nations. The award went to Ahmed Trek Fahmy, Ibrahim Mohamed Hany, and Omar Ghorab for their project “Sign Language Translator”, under the supervision of the PSC mentors; Eng. Khalaf Ahmed, Dr. Hanaa Essa and Eng. Mohamed Nasr. Moreover, the students were awarded by Minister of Education, Dr. Ahmed Zaki Badr. His Excellency gave each student a laptop and a USB internet modem.
Hereunder is the list of presented projects in more details:
| No. |
Project Title |
Description |
Student(s) |
| 1 |
Let All Control
(Handicapped Chair Mouse)
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"Let All Control" is about how to make life easier for handicapped people. In this project, we try to allow handicapped people who suffer from problems with their hands to have control over the computer mouse without any difficulties. |
*Belal Magdy Elsayed |
| 2 |
Sink Safely |
Cars are one of the most important and wide-spread means of transportation. They carry billions of people every day for various needs and purposes; people drive cars to go to work, visit different places, go on a journey, or may be rescue other people's lives.
Automotive industry has reached high levels of development and progress. It utilizes state-of-the-art technologies to develop cars capabilities and features such as motors power, speed, welfare, and security. Vehicles safety is one of the most important fields that are used to evaluate their performance.
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*Omar Amin Ghroab
*Ahmed Tarek Fahmy
*Mahmoud Shebl
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| 3 |
Sign Language Translator-SLT
(How we can increase the percentage of the communication between the deaf and the normal)
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Personal communication skills are vital to a successful life. Millions of people suffer from impaired speaking and listening abilities. A significant majority of these people use hand sign-language to communicate, such as Egyptian sign-language. Words are formed by various hand, finger, thumb, and wrist combination.
Such language is not familiar to many people and it becomes very difficult to communicate with them. If users of Egyptian sign-language had a device that could readily translate from sign-language to written words, the process of communication would become easier. Therefore, it would be very helpful for the deaf to have an Egyptian language interpreter device to translate their finger spelling into readable text.
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*Ahmed Tarek Fahmy
*Ibrahim Mohamed Hany
*Omar Amin Ghroab
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