Hello everyone, We are the Bolles global
leaders of the Bolles School in
Jacksonville, FL. Imagine
you have a desperate medical emergency
which you lack the necessary medical
resources or the care.
So we created heartbeat in a box. So
let's dive in. Over
150 million people in the
world. Over 500,000
people in the United States and over
1000 people from the youth of from
Jacksonville, FL where we are from our
homeless every year.
According to the UN HCR, over
88% of the world population is medically
illiterate, meaning that they have no
idea how to take care of themselves and
medical situation.
Box It aims to combat 3 different factors
in increased medical jargon in increase
in medical resources and a decrease in
medical knowledge. So part of being
in a box is a sustainable first aid kit
included with an alarm system from
vulnerable populations. And it has
pamphlets written in many different
languages. For instance, we made our
pamphlets in English and on the back in
Spanish. Because we're from in Florida,
English and Spanish are the most. Common
languages.
So we hope to come back two of the UN SDG
goals. The first one is called 3.8, which
is universal access to healthcare and
that includes free vaccines, free drugs
and free healthcare difference.
And then the other goal is 4.5, which
means to eliminate educational
disparities and fight equal access to
education for all. So how do we
incorporate all of this into our design?
So as you can see from prototype, it's
made out of a durable flexible fabric
that can easily be folded and zipped up
and then we have to handle. So you can
carry as a bag. And then along with that
we've got multiple pockets of different
sizes and fastenings. So you can house
all of these different products and.
And altogether our product comes to a
total of $606.00, which can be lowered
if manufactured on a larger scale.
Now when's the last time you've used soap
or a Band-Aid? Pretty recently, right?
These are often things we take for
granted and so often
things we take for granted. But not
everyone does. And our product we have
included soap sheets which are not
packaged, so they're healthy for the
environment and biodegradable cotton
fabric and also.
Sagittate which are necessary elements in
any version. Our two
remaining materials, bug spray and
sunscreen are specific to where we live,
Jacksonville, FL. Our annual climate
ranges from hot into wet humid weather
and that's why having with these two
materials are imperative for the homeless
population.
So what is the elements in heartbeat in a
box that we incorporated is our Odyssey
board. So Odyssey board is a combination
of the orbital microcontroller with the
breadboard in a compact way, so we can
embed it within the fabric that we
created for heartbeat and above. So we
programmed this in C and it comes in
two aspects with the first being to LED
lights which are mainly used for when.
Population history of future infections
or their injuries, especially in the dark
area and our alarm system is used
for vulnerable populations who need
an emergency way to defend
themselves and they can press a button in
order to turn on the alarm.
So in order to gain a deeper
understanding and why was suspected about
the homeless populations, we interviewed
both locally and up In the
NE 1st we interviewed Alex
Blindfold who's the Co coordinator called
volunteer coordinator of the homeless
shelter in Jacksonville. And then we
interviewed Claire and Paul Kazak who are
Co coordinators of a homeless shelter up
in Maryland. And the main
idea we took away from these interviews
learning how they work first hand with
the homeless population is that our
product should follow the post human
design centered design. And this means
that our product is adaptable to whatever
region it is placing. For example, we
have included bug spray and sunscreen
into our product for our environment, but
in colder climates other resources can
use which makes our product very
innovative.
Now why does this matter out of all the
first agents on the market right now?
Ours is different because it's
sustainable too. It focuses on health,
but also doesn't harm our earth while
doing so. To add cute health is
a basic right. We all need our health and
our bodies to just go about our days.
This can improve the most.
Chances of life and getting a job or just
moving forward in life is you have to
have your help. Because that's why our
products so important. It goes back to
those basic rights that we need to
improve our lives and to build up from
the situation of so hard. Thank you.