fairfolio
Saved Projects

My Solar Garden

ISEF · 2015

Elia, Sean

Overview

The Purpose of this project is to design, build, and test the most efficient miniature greenhouse. In order to build this I needed to cut four eight foot pieces of one by two inch lumber, two sheets of acrylic glass, and soft plastic to desired specifications. The next step is to build the outer cabinet using wood glue, and pneumatic nails. Then the shelves have to be installed using the same methods. One quarter inch dowel wood must be cut to fit desired dimensions in order to fit the second and third shelves. The electrical is the next item to be installed. To do so insert a 12 volt battery, thermostat, two toggle switches, copper wire, LED lights, solar panel, and computer fans in the desired way. Finally set up the watering system, insert the micro tubing, water container, pump and solar panel inside the structure. After the building of the structure was complete, I planted Genovese Basel to test. All of the plants that sprouted did so faster than the average germination time for the species as a whole. Of the plants that germinated, the average growing time was 4.1 days. This is compared to the average which is 8 days.

Competition history

Resources

Related projects

Closest projects by meaning, across every fair and year in the corpus.

Browse more like this

Source: Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair

Save projects to your library

Sign in with Google to keep track of projects you find interesting, organized into folders. An account also raises your daily allowance for “Has this been done?”, and lets you create a key for the MCP server with a much higher limit than anonymous use. Browsing stays public.

Continue with Google