005-年轻人的创意

Passage 005-年轻人的创意
An oyster habitat (牡蛎的栖息地) , abandoned houses converted to gardens, a cart ( 马车) that turms into a homeless shelter, a multi-layered rainwater filtering system- -these are some of the products that debuted at the recent “Digital
Fabrication Challenge". The inventors are students, from 10 to 17 years old. Sixth grader Sydney Lane-Ryer says her team focused on the dramatically decreasing oyster population in the nearby Chesapeake Bay. “Our solution was creating an oyster habitat that will sit on the bottom of the ocean, or I guess the harbor in our case. That will be connected to a floating wetland. That has a bunch of different plants. That will also give nutrients ( 营养物质) with their roots to the oysters to help them thrive, and it will also help filter out toxins ( 毒素) and dirt and other things in the water." This high school team wants to tackle a different problem in Baltimore: more than 16,000 abandoned homes. “We wanted to convert abandoned row houses into greenhouses, that would serve as community gardens and also would produce food for homeless shelters and soup kitchens in the area." The Digital Harbor Foundation, which sponsors youth technology programs, host the event. “The purpose of FabSlam is to give kids a chance to experiment with creative problem-solving. So we present a challenge to them that's very open, very vague, and we give them an opportunity to come up with their own solution to their own problem that they identify within that sort of constraint.”