Three Palestinian girls win applied electronics award in Intel International Science

Aseel Abu Aleil, Aseel Alshaar and Noor Alarada traveled to San Jose from the West Bank to represent Palestine in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last week. The competition is the largest pre-college science fair in the world with more than 6 million global contestants and 1,500 finalists in competing for over $4 million in scholarships and prizes, including a grand prize $50,000 college scholarship.

The three 14-year-olds attend a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school located at Aska Refugee Camp in Nablus where their project was developed from concept to prototype with the help of their science teacher Jamilah Khaled. It began as a simple idea, born of necessity, in a region where streets and sidewalks are seldom smoothly paved and obstacles such as holes and debris pose significant challenges for the visually impaired. The girls developed an electronic obstacle-detecting walking stick which senses the terrain ahead and informs the user by various non visual signals.



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