{"id":166514,"date":"2023-06-27T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/im-really-into-planetary-defence-meet-the-13-year-old-whose-science-project-could-protect-earth-from-asteroids"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:46:02","slug":"im-really-into-planetary-defence-meet-the-13-year-old-whose-science-project-could-protect-earth-from-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/im-really-into-planetary-defence-meet-the-13-year-old-whose-science-project-could-protect-earth-from-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m really into planetary defence\u201d: Meet the 13-year-old whose science project could protect Earth from asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/im-really-into-planetary-defence-meet-the-13-year-old-whose-science-project-could-protect-earth-from-asteroids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you ever mesh your other hobbies with the space stuff?<\/strong> Yes. I once turned the results of one of my experiments into a musical. In 2020, during the lockdowns, I put a scientific instrument on my balcony to measure light, sound and pollution before and after the pandemic. I ended up with several graphs and thought, <em>Why not turn these into a musical?<\/em> So, me and my brother got several musical instruments and played notes according to how high or low each point on the graph was. We actually submitted that to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dXa1lWWvae8&t=113s\" class=\"\"> the NASA SpaceApps COVID-19 Challenge<\/a> and became one of the top six global winners.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dXa1lWWvae8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think you\u2019ll study space science at university when you\u2019re older?<\/strong> I think so. Either aerospace or astrophysics, or maybe both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any other cool projects in the pipeline?<\/strong> Not right now, but I\u2019m getting ready to go to Belgium this September, to represent Canada in the EU Contest for Young Scientists, which is an international science competition. I\u2019ll be able to showcase this project there. But before then, I need to make a 10-page project report with figures, summaries and scientific documents. And I\u2019ll need a poster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever mesh your other hobbies with the space stuff? Yes. I once turned the results of one of my experiments into a musical. In 2020, during the lockdowns, I put a scientific instrument on my balcony to measure light, sound and pollution before and after the pandemic. I ended up with several graphs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,219,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-physics","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}