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Hi, I am Peter Cullen, voice of OPTIMUS PRIME.

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I’m here today at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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with the next generation of engineers.

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The winning teams for the 2017

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NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge,

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otherwise known as NASA OPSPARC.

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These young creative minds

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took NASA technology and were able to use it to solve

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different problems they witnessed out in the world.

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Hi, I’m…..Alexa and I'm Ellie

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We’re from the Hamlin School in San Francisco, CA.

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We took the thermawing material which NASA developed

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to de-ice airplanes and used it to create an ingenious

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therma-bed for greenhouses so plant lovers and farmers

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an keep their plants and crops alive during cold weather.

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How did you come up with this idea?

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We wanted to help farmers, because they have a really hard way of

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of making money.

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They can't grow crops during the winter which means they can't

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get money during the winter and also they don't know 

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what the weather is going to be and they need specific conditions

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for certain to grow their crops.

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So with thermawbed they

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can now create those specific conditions and 

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maintain that environment during the winters

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so they can grow crops and make money during the winter too.

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We've researched the key components found

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in thermawiing. Thermawing consist of a series

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of heating pads graphite foil to keep the motors unfrozen.

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If the motors were to freeze the plane would be disfunctional.

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Having done our research, we designed a

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prototype of our greenhouse using the Thermawing technology

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and then gathered our materials and tools to bring our idea to life.

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And that was it?

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Oh no! We had to test and evaluate it.

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So from the beginning we had

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our heating pads run off of battery

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power but then we changed it so now you 

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just plug the heating pads into

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an outlet at the side of your house

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so it's easier and you don't have to replace the batteries every year.

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When we finalized our designs we made a glog

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it's a digital poster.

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You too can come up with a cool solution like that.

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Join us for next year's

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OPSPARC challenge,

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where creativity and technology come together

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and new ideas are formed.

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Be the Spark, Join OPSPARC.

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