Abigail Marie Mitchell
Student Inventor/ Innovator
MY WORK
Project | 01 Decomposing Toilet
I am proposing a paradigm shift in toilets that will not only change the way we view sanitation but fossil fuels as well. The concept is a self-contained, decomposing latrine system that could turn raw materials such as human feces and food scraps into fuel, specifically biomethane, if in the right environment. With such an idea in mind, harnessing and using biomethane to not only pump water for farm irrigation and potentially provide a few hours of electricity at night, this could be a life changing innovation for many.
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Project | 01
EDISON SUBMISSION
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Project | 02 The Fruit Basket Initiative
Spearheaded Fruit Rescue Program (Girl Scout Gold Award): in which students can give produce they are not going to eat, and deposit in a basket to be washed and then donated to Harvesters to help feed food-insecure people in the Kansas City area.
Click here for article from Girl Scouts on the project.
Click here to watch a video about the Initiative featured on Fox 4 Young Achiever
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Project | 03 World Food Prize Program
I had the opportunity to write a paper about a third world country and problems within it; I chose Honduras and water ans sanitaton issues. From there I presented my paper at Kansas State Universtiy to the Dean of Agriculture and some of his co-workers, there I was choosen to be one of three delegates to represent Kansas at the national conference.
The conference was an amazing experience that I will truely keep with me forever, and it really helped to fuel my fire to want to be apart of the the team that would end world hunger.