2013-2014

Master Blasters Team 1869

2013-2014 Amazon Warriors

Team 1870

2010-2011

Lego Amazon Warriors

Prosthetic Limbs

A prosthetic is an artificial device that replaces a missing limb. Long ago people relied on wooden,metal and plastic to make stiff prosthetic limbs.

Making lower body prosthetic limbs has been easier and prosthetics are very good. Patients have been able to walk and run with no problem with their prosthetic legs. Upper prosthetic limbs are harder because of all the moving bones in the hand.

Today we have better prosthetic arms but they still cannot do what we normaly do with our own arms.

Scientist are currently working on robotic arms to make it better. 

Targeted muscle reinnervation

Targeted muscle reinnervation is one of the ways to control a prosthetic arm.

The nerves of an amputated limb are surgically redirected to a substitute healthy muscle.

The electrical signal to the healthy muscle can be sensed by eletrodes that control the prosthetic limb.

iLimb

Then there is the iLimb.

Unlike the Luke arm the iLimb does not use external controls; it uses myoelectric pads.

Myoletric pads receive signals from the surface of the skin of the damaged limb to control the movements of the prosthesis.

Luke Arm

Dean Kamen is working on what is called the Luke Arm.

This is a project wich Dean Kamen himself is working on.

The Luke arm is light weight.

The patient activates the arm with controls placed at the feet.         

2010-2011

Lego Master Blasters

Heart Disease

HEART DISEASE

     We researched about nanotechnology and how it can help doctors treat people with heart disease.

Our unhealthy eating habits cause:

• Obesity
• Heart Disease
• Diabetes
• High blood pressure

With time all the junk we eat causes arterial plaque buildup

• Arterial plaque is caused by eating too much fat and cholesterol
• Cholesterol seems to be the biggest troublemaker
• Plaque can begin as early as childhood and by the time you turn 40 you have problems
• Plaque build up in arteries carrying blood to the heart is called coronary heart disease

Clogged arteries may give warnings of danger but usually a heart attack is a surprise.

A heart attack happens when arteries that supply blood to your heart are clogged, stopping enough oxygen from getting to the heart.

Nanotechnology

     Nanotechnology is a concept that was thought of since 1959.

The idea is to build machines on the scale of molecules. This means they are very, very tiny.

So far, scientists have been able to reach the first generation of nanostructures. This means that we can only apply nanotechnology to coatings like sunscreen or metallic and ceramic surfaces.

The second generation nano structures are supposed to be more active and can be used to transmit medicines in the body.

• They attached something called a peptide to the nanoparticle causing the nanoparticle to attach to the plaque.
• From there medicines can be sent to treat the condition.