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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Eliott, 14, First French Winner of Google Student Science Fair




Elliott, 14, the first French winner of the Google Science Fair

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Eliott Sarrey reçoit son prix lors de la Google Science Fair, dans la nuit de lundi 21 à mardi 22 septembre.

At 14, Eliott Sarrey became, in the night of Monday to Tuesday, September 22, the first French candidate to be awarded at the Google Science Fair competitionscience which young people from world over every year submit their innovative projects.

The college student from a village of Meurthe-et-Moselle won the "incubator price," with the key 10,000 dollars (9,000 euros) and mentoring of a year, during which a scientist to accompany mature his invention.
This is called Bot2Karot: this is a robot gardener, who "knows hoeing, watering,transplanting, drill holes" for you, and can be controlled via an application on a smartphone, a-t- he explained in Mountain View, Google's headquarters in California, which hosted the awards.
On the site of the competition, Eliott explains how the idea was born (cultivatinga vegetable garden without spending the time). It also tells the realization of the prototype, with the aid of websites and tutorials, a milling machine and a 3D printer, and the center now searching where his father is an engineer.
This student of 3rd which states have launched computer clubs and robotic in his college, do not forget to talk about the future: the Bot2Karot, which could be adapted to a chicken coop or cultivation of vegetable gardens Urban rooftop, but also his: "I would spend my first year in the United States to learn out speak.English, but it is not possible for financial reasons, he writes Winning this contest could me the permit, but it would be mostly a personal glory, recognition.That would be great, amazing! "
This is now done.
Read also the portrait of Eliott Sarrey wrote this summer by our blogger William Ouattara after the schoolboy was selected for the final contest:
The video where the schoolboy presents his project:
And the one where he tells the genesis of the prototype:

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