Young Girl Wins $15,000 Scholarship Google Prize After developing Moisture Detector Bandages

Anushka Maiknaware has invented a bandage that can tell doctors when it needs to be changed, impressing Google judges and securing a $15,000 scholarship. 

Large wounds must be kept moist to promote healing, but changing bandages too often to check moisture levels can make things worse. 

To solve that problem, Anushka, a seventh-grader at Stoller Middle School in Portland, designed and tested a bandage that is embedded with tiny monitors. 

The monitors can sense moisture levels and allow medical workers to determine whether the dressing has dried out enough that the bandage needs to be changed.  

Anuskha created the sensors by printing a fractal pattern using ink containing graphene nanoparticles. 

Anushka was the youngest person to win one of the global prizes.Winning the Lego Education Builder Award, Anuska gets a scholarship and a free trip to Lego world headquarters in Denmark.

Aside from her Denmark trip, the middle schooler will also get a year of entrepreneurship mentoring from a Lego executive, reported the Oregonian.

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