14YO Yuvraj Singh Developed An Automatic Sanitizer Dispenser

COVID-19 has spread around the world at an alarming rate. Over 1,400,000 people have been infected with the virus with a total fatality of more than 88,000.

The situation of the outbreak in India is getting worse with new cases every day. The country’s number of confirmed cases is more than 5,700 patients with 166 deaths.

Experts recommend that the best thing people can do is maintaining personal hygiene while practicing social distancing. That is why the most-searched items at the moment are face masks and hand sanitizers. But with so many people touching the handle of a hand sanitizer bottle may not be really sanitary. That is why this 14-year-old boy has come up with this solution.

An 8^th grader at Noida’s ASN Sr. Secondary Public School, Yuvraj Singh has developed an automated sanitizer dispenser, preventing people from touching and infecting the handle.

He got his technical skill from Stemrobo which is an Edtech startup teaching young kids STEM, AI, and robotics. Stemrobo has been helping them become familiar with STEM-related fields.

The startup has set up at ASN Senior Secondary School an Atal Tinkering Lab where Yuvraji learned how to create the DIY dispenser.

The dispenser consists of a sanitizer squeeze bottle and a metal contraption made using Stemrobo’s Mechantron Kit. The kit allows kids to mess around basic robots to do all kinds of tasks.

There is an IR sensor sensing hands/movement that triggers the bottle every time someone wants to use it. The contraption then presses down to dispense a certain amount of sanitizer, avoiding wastage.

This isn’t the first time kids become creative with hand sanitizers. Siddh Sanghvi, a 12-year-old from Spring Dales School recently revealed his hand sanitizer dispenser made using Lego Technic Systems.

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