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Inventing Tomorrow: Air
Special | 17m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Students Jesús, José and Fernando invent a paint that removes pollutants from the air.
In one of Mexico’s most polluted cities, high school students Jesús Martinez, José Elizalde and Fernando Sanchez invent a paint that can remove pollutants from the air, which takes them all the way to the world-famous ISEF science fair.
Funding provided by Hastings/Quillin Fund, Wavelength Productions, Glassbreaker Films, Drumstick Fund, Heavin-Weinman Family Trust Charitable Gift Fund, Desjardins/Blachman Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Jason and Yvonee Lee Common Investment Fund, and Hopper-Dean Family Fund.
WORLD Channel
Inventing Tomorrow: Air
Special | 17m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
In one of Mexico’s most polluted cities, high school students Jesús Martinez, José Elizalde and Fernando Sanchez invent a paint that can remove pollutants from the air, which takes them all the way to the world-famous ISEF science fair.
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Celebrate women – their history and present – in March with WORLD, appreciating the hard won battles for gender equality and recognizing how much more we all have to work toward.♪ ♪ (engine rumbles) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ JOSE (speaking Spanish): FERNANDO: JESUS: (chattering) JOSE: JESUS: FERNANDO: AZAEL: JESUS: ♪ ♪ (people shouting on field in Spanish) COMPUTER VOICE: Do you know what I mean?
(slowed) Do you know what I mean?
(voice on machine speaking Spanish) How do you pronounce this?
(slowed) How do you pronounce this?
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to ISEF, International Science and Engineering Fair.
How many of you are here competing for the very first time?
(cheers and applause) Wow.
WOMAN: When the students come and they've already gone through a series of competitions to get to the level of ISEF, and students who really want to advance know they have to do original research.
This is the science fair of science fairs.
♪ ♪ JESUS: (overlapping chatter) FERNANDO: ♪ ♪ JOSE: JOSE: MARCELA: JOSE: WOMAN: GIRL: JOSE: WOMAN: JOSE: (laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ JESUS: JESUS: JESUS: JOSE: ♪ ♪ ANNOUNCER: Welcome, finalists, to Intel ISEF, the International Science and Engineering Fair.
Ladies and gentlemen, Maya Ajmera.
MAYA: Welcome, everyone.
The Intel ISEF finals this year hail from 78 countries, regions, and territories.
In the science fairs every year around the globe, tens of millions of students compete, and then it boils down to you, the best of the best.
This is your time.
This is your day.
(applause) (people chattering) ♪ ♪ JOSE: JOSE: Jesus.
JESUS: TEACHER: PARTICIPANT: My seatbelt obligates drivers to put on the seatbelt to turn on the car and to drive the car.
PARTICIPANT: There's no quantifiable factor right now to diagnose a patient with Autism.
That's why it's so groundbreaking.
JESUS: Do you speak Spanish?
WOMAN: They do, they speak Spanish.
I don't, but they do.
How many of you speak Spanish?
JOSE: JESUS: JOSE: (vibrating) Yes.
That-- those vibrations... JOSE: Uh-huh... - It'll put the fire away.
JOSE: Oh... - So, yes.
JOSE: I like-- I love it.
- You love it?
Your voice is still going from the party.
JOSE: No, but usually it's this.
It's... mmm...
Grave-- gravel?
Hard.
- Uh, gruff?
JOSE: Gruff.
- Gruff.
Yeah.
How do you say, "screaming" in...?
Gritar.
- Grita?
JOSE: Gritar.
- Gritar.
JOSE: With "R" but hard.
(rolls tongue) - (rolls tongue) - Gritar.
JOSE: Gritar, yeah.
- Got it.
ANNOUNCER: May I have your attention please?
Finalists, you must be at your project, ready to be judged by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
WOMAN: JOSE: WOMAN: JOSE: ♪ ♪ ANNOUNCER: Grant award judges, begin interview period one.
Grant award judges, begin interview period one.
KERRI: Hi, I'm Kerri.
- Jose.
- Jesus.
- Jesus, Jose.
- Interpreter.
- Interpreter, gotcha.
JESUS: We made-- paint, when the paint is in contact with the sun, then our reduction reaction and the contamination gases in there that are transforming into... JOSE: There's one synthesis-- we produced titanium dioxide by... and the next one, characterization, we made for our test.
And the most important is X-ray diffraction, because we want to be sure that the material was correct.
So are you measuring... like, how do you know what the product is and how do you know how much is converted?
JOSE: JESUS: The photoreactor... Chemiluminescencia... - Chemiluminescencia... Chemiluminescencia.
- Chemiluminescencia.
JESUS: I don't know how can I say the word, but well, the photoreactor, registers the incretion of the concentration.
KERRI: But, do you know what it's looking at?
Is it using spectroscopy, is it, like, what is it using to measure the... JESUS: Chemiluminescencia... - Chemiluminescencia... JESUS: So in conclusion, the paints works, so, as you can see, we have a resolution for a big problem in the world.
So I've seen CO2 acting as a photocatalyst before.
Do you know how this compares to other examples in the literature?
Okay, I think we're out of time, but thank you so much.
Good job.
- Thank you.
Good luck, you guys.
- Nice to meet you.
- Thank you.
See you.
(sighs) JESUS: How was it?
So-so?
♪ ♪ ANNOUNCER: This ends period 19.
Judges, all of your scores should now be recorded.
If any are missing, enter them now.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ MAN: Come on over here.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the awards ceremony.
There are multiple winners in each of the 22 categories.
In the category of animal sciences...
In the category of energy, chemical...
In the category of translational medical science...
In the category of earth and environmental sciences... (applause) ♪ ♪ JESUS: Hey, man, congrats.
- Yeah, thanks.
- You're amazing.
FERNANDO: Congrats, guys.
JOSE: Thank you, so much.
Nice to meet you.
- Nice to see you.
Nice to meet you.
JOSE: Bye.
JESUS: - Thank you.
♪ ♪ (instructor speaking muffled Spanish) WOMAN: JOSE: WOMAN: WOMAN: JOSE: WOMAN: JOSE: WOMAN: WOMAN: JOSE: WOMAN: ♪ ♪ PROFESSOR AND JOSE: JOSE'S MOM: JOSE: TEACHER: JOSE: ♪ ♪ (students chatting, laughing) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
Funding provided by Hastings/Quillin Fund, Wavelength Productions, Glassbreaker Films, Drumstick Fund, Heavin-Weinman Family Trust Charitable Gift Fund, Desjardins/Blachman Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Jason and Yvonee Lee Common Investment Fund, and Hopper-Dean Family Fund.