Our Mission:
For this project, our goal was to solve world hunger through biotechnology and use all of the skills that we gained throughout the school year. We chose to work on food shortage problems in poor countries and find solutions for this. My group and I discovered three efficient ways to do this, increased yield, vitamin, and shelf life. Out of these three possibilities we chose to research increased yield and discovered it would make the biggest difference. To increase the yield of our topic, which is corn we used GMOs to do this.
We were given an unlimited budget, but also the technology had to be applied to solving the problem that we chose. We wanted to make sure that our end result would have a large impact on were we were doing it and helping the less fortunate by providing their needs. To do this we went through five steps, all carefully detailed that helped us achieve our end goal for stopping food shortages.
Stage 1: Identify
Current Biotech Issue/problem that needs to be solved:
Food Shortages.
Area(s) of Challenge: (food, health, etc)
Food
Who is impacted by the problem:
Those in developing countries
Previously attempted solutions and limitations of solutions
Stage 2: Research
What is your problem (at least 2 paragraph)?
Our problem is food shortages and how to fix it with biotech. This affects people obviously in Africa that don’t have enough food to survive. It affects other places in the world that have to deal with poverty. They don’t have a good government or economy to make money to buy food. There isn’t enough food there and people die of hunger so we want to think of a way to possibly fix that.
Current limitations, why has it not been solved already?
One of the current limitations is the fact that these technologies are very expensive. To be able to research and implement the proper solutions to solve food shortages world wide, it requires huge amounts of funding. This is a struggle because not everyone is aware of how big this problem really is. In order to fix the problem people need to become aware of how it affects the entire world.
Proposed solution.
One of our solutions for this problem is Genetic modified organisms also known as GMO’s. With this, it will help solve this problem by giving us more food by a lot and easier to grow in different climates. Also with GMO’s it will make the crops grow better and faster and also allow them to be transported in much greater distances without any harm to the crops. This helps stop the food shortage problem and helps benefit a lot of people.
Another solution we have proposed is improving the technology around the agricultural business. By helping to improve farming equipment and especially the cost of farming equipment, people who are not able to use or access these technologies will be able to. This will help them be able to grow their own crops and become more self sufficient, helping the cause of food shortages.
Golden Rice, golden rice is a gmo variation of rice that gives more vitamin A. More specifically, beta carotene which is what humans need to make vitamin A. There are places where people don’t get enough vitamin A and this would be an easy way to help that.
Mentor, why did you choose them, their credentials and contact info.
Clara Moskowitz:
Clara has a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
https://t.co/VGa40PNzrP
Ciations
https://www.livescience.com/2475-radical-science-aims-solve-food-crisis.html
https://www.paypervids.com/food-shortage-causes-effects-solutions/
Stage 3: Imagine
Overview of your solution and why it will solve your problem?
Our solution is GMO’s. These modify the genetically modify the plants which gives them better crop yields, more vitamins, and longer shelf life. This solves the problem because the plants will live longer to get to poorer countries, it will give kids with malnutrition better health, and it will make more food in general for them to eat.
I am currently a sophomore at San Marin high school. I am part of the STEM program here and for our final project, we were tasked of using biotech to make change in the world. We decided to focus on using GMO’s to fight world hunger. Our plan to pull this off is, first we need to come up with certain crops that would be most beneficial to our cause and we need to find the area in the world that is most in need of help in terms of food shortages. Then we will develop a hypothetical plan to help the people that live there. My group and I would love your feedback on our plan and any critiques to it.
Stage 4: Plan
Detailed descriptions of the tests you need to conduct:
For each test- what is the test, the purpose, general procedure, and what is needed to conduct it
We plan to use GMO’s that give extra nourishment, can stay fresh for longer, and that have more yield.
First we would test the nourishment. The purpose would be to see how many vitamins and minerals we could fit into food that people need. To try and make the most efficient food. We need all materials to make GMOs. We would use the bacteria bacillus subtilis to give the food more vitamins such as vitamin a, b-2, b-12, c, and d to support a lack of vitamins in poor areas.
Second, we would test to see how long the food could stay fresh for. The purpose is so we can get the food all the way to Africa without it going bad.. We would find the one that lasts the longest and use that. We would suppress two enzymes in tomatoes, A-Man & B-Hex, that build up during ripening. This would increase the shelf life of the tomato to over a month. We would try suppressing different amounts of the enzyme and see what makes it stay fresh for the longest.
Third, We will test how much extra yield we can get out of GMO’s. The purpose of this is to get more food to people in Africa. The population is increasing so we need to increase food production at the same rate. We would modify the germplasm in the seeds of plants. This is the genetic info that tells the seed how to grow. We would change this information until we got the most yield.
Stage 5: Create
Provide a detailed blueprint of your product. This needs to be as specific as possible with materials, size, different angles.
If building you need to build a prototype
What food, how, what parts of Africa, what plane, what airport
Step 1: We will insert genetic material directly into the germplasm of corn seeds. The germplasm holds the instructions for how the corn grows and how much grows. By inserting these instructions we will increase the amount anywhere from 5-25%. It has also been confirmed that they pose no threat to human health in fact have lower percentages of mycotoxins (-28.8 percent), fumonisins (-30.6 percent) and thricotecens (−36.5 percent), all of which can harm human and animal health.
Step 2: use K B!ggy’s fleet of private jets to supply 3.5 million people in the Central African Republic, which is the hungriest country in the world. The 3.5 million are 76% of their population that are in poverty. This will not only help the people with their hunger but their money because they won have to pay for food.
Step 3: build spaces for crops to grow in the Central African Republic. This will allow for the crops to grow there for longer and give them more space to grow food for themselves.
Step 4: every month we will send another plane in to bring more seeds to keep the population not hungry
For this project, our goal was to solve world hunger through biotechnology and use all of the skills that we gained throughout the school year. We chose to work on food shortage problems in poor countries and find solutions for this. My group and I discovered three efficient ways to do this, increased yield, vitamin, and shelf life. Out of these three possibilities we chose to research increased yield and discovered it would make the biggest difference. To increase the yield of our topic, which is corn we used GMOs to do this.
We were given an unlimited budget, but also the technology had to be applied to solving the problem that we chose. We wanted to make sure that our end result would have a large impact on were we were doing it and helping the less fortunate by providing their needs. To do this we went through five steps, all carefully detailed that helped us achieve our end goal for stopping food shortages.
Stage 1: Identify
Current Biotech Issue/problem that needs to be solved:
Food Shortages.
Area(s) of Challenge: (food, health, etc)
Food
Who is impacted by the problem:
Those in developing countries
Previously attempted solutions and limitations of solutions
- Advancements in industrial agricultural technology. One limitation to this is the cost and maintenance of the technology. Those who are more affected by food shortages can’t afford these advanced methods of farming.
- Dedicating more land to agriculture. One problem with this is finding land that is suitable for agriculture. Not all land and areas have the right conditions to grow crops so expanding land for farming is limited to only places with the right conditions.
- Genetically modifying crops so they produce more. Again this is very expensive so those who can’t afford to get these new technologies won’t have as much food.
Stage 2: Research
What is your problem (at least 2 paragraph)?
Our problem is food shortages and how to fix it with biotech. This affects people obviously in Africa that don’t have enough food to survive. It affects other places in the world that have to deal with poverty. They don’t have a good government or economy to make money to buy food. There isn’t enough food there and people die of hunger so we want to think of a way to possibly fix that.
Current limitations, why has it not been solved already?
One of the current limitations is the fact that these technologies are very expensive. To be able to research and implement the proper solutions to solve food shortages world wide, it requires huge amounts of funding. This is a struggle because not everyone is aware of how big this problem really is. In order to fix the problem people need to become aware of how it affects the entire world.
Proposed solution.
One of our solutions for this problem is Genetic modified organisms also known as GMO’s. With this, it will help solve this problem by giving us more food by a lot and easier to grow in different climates. Also with GMO’s it will make the crops grow better and faster and also allow them to be transported in much greater distances without any harm to the crops. This helps stop the food shortage problem and helps benefit a lot of people.
Another solution we have proposed is improving the technology around the agricultural business. By helping to improve farming equipment and especially the cost of farming equipment, people who are not able to use or access these technologies will be able to. This will help them be able to grow their own crops and become more self sufficient, helping the cause of food shortages.
Golden Rice, golden rice is a gmo variation of rice that gives more vitamin A. More specifically, beta carotene which is what humans need to make vitamin A. There are places where people don’t get enough vitamin A and this would be an easy way to help that.
Mentor, why did you choose them, their credentials and contact info.
Clara Moskowitz:
Clara has a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
https://t.co/VGa40PNzrP
Ciations
https://www.livescience.com/2475-radical-science-aims-solve-food-crisis.html
https://www.paypervids.com/food-shortage-causes-effects-solutions/
Stage 3: Imagine
Overview of your solution and why it will solve your problem?
Our solution is GMO’s. These modify the genetically modify the plants which gives them better crop yields, more vitamins, and longer shelf life. This solves the problem because the plants will live longer to get to poorer countries, it will give kids with malnutrition better health, and it will make more food in general for them to eat.
- Detailed description of the solution
- Your action plan: What needs to happen for you to be able to pitch your product
- Email to virtual mentor
I am currently a sophomore at San Marin high school. I am part of the STEM program here and for our final project, we were tasked of using biotech to make change in the world. We decided to focus on using GMO’s to fight world hunger. Our plan to pull this off is, first we need to come up with certain crops that would be most beneficial to our cause and we need to find the area in the world that is most in need of help in terms of food shortages. Then we will develop a hypothetical plan to help the people that live there. My group and I would love your feedback on our plan and any critiques to it.
Stage 4: Plan
Detailed descriptions of the tests you need to conduct:
For each test- what is the test, the purpose, general procedure, and what is needed to conduct it
We plan to use GMO’s that give extra nourishment, can stay fresh for longer, and that have more yield.
First we would test the nourishment. The purpose would be to see how many vitamins and minerals we could fit into food that people need. To try and make the most efficient food. We need all materials to make GMOs. We would use the bacteria bacillus subtilis to give the food more vitamins such as vitamin a, b-2, b-12, c, and d to support a lack of vitamins in poor areas.
Second, we would test to see how long the food could stay fresh for. The purpose is so we can get the food all the way to Africa without it going bad.. We would find the one that lasts the longest and use that. We would suppress two enzymes in tomatoes, A-Man & B-Hex, that build up during ripening. This would increase the shelf life of the tomato to over a month. We would try suppressing different amounts of the enzyme and see what makes it stay fresh for the longest.
Third, We will test how much extra yield we can get out of GMO’s. The purpose of this is to get more food to people in Africa. The population is increasing so we need to increase food production at the same rate. We would modify the germplasm in the seeds of plants. This is the genetic info that tells the seed how to grow. We would change this information until we got the most yield.
Stage 5: Create
Provide a detailed blueprint of your product. This needs to be as specific as possible with materials, size, different angles.
If building you need to build a prototype
What food, how, what parts of Africa, what plane, what airport
Step 1: We will insert genetic material directly into the germplasm of corn seeds. The germplasm holds the instructions for how the corn grows and how much grows. By inserting these instructions we will increase the amount anywhere from 5-25%. It has also been confirmed that they pose no threat to human health in fact have lower percentages of mycotoxins (-28.8 percent), fumonisins (-30.6 percent) and thricotecens (−36.5 percent), all of which can harm human and animal health.
Step 2: use K B!ggy’s fleet of private jets to supply 3.5 million people in the Central African Republic, which is the hungriest country in the world. The 3.5 million are 76% of their population that are in poverty. This will not only help the people with their hunger but their money because they won have to pay for food.
Step 3: build spaces for crops to grow in the Central African Republic. This will allow for the crops to grow there for longer and give them more space to grow food for themselves.
Step 4: every month we will send another plane in to bring more seeds to keep the population not hungry