Glenfield’s G-Force Robotics Team is competing in the FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award competition. The theme of this year’s competition, which encourages students to develop their innovative solutions to real-world problems, is to come up with a food safety invention.

G-Force, led by math teacher Courtney Washington, has designed “The Cleansing Conveyor,” a self-cleaning conveyor belt that prevents cross-contamination in stores, factories and lunch rooms. The winner of the award is determined by online votes. Visitors to the site may vote once a day.

The winning team will have the opportunity to work with product development and marketing experts to transform their invention into a product reality. Three finalist teams will be recognized at an awards ceremony hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in Alexandria, Va.

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Or visit FIRST LEGO League's website and search for G-Force, Team Number 1405, "Cleansing Conveyor."
About the Invention:
Team Description:
G-Force is a team of creative, motivated students who love to program their robots for sumo wrestling, tug of war battles, and FLL competitions. Last year we won the Food Factor project award and advanced to the state level competition. We enjoy working together and hope to get a patent for our invention, The Cleansing Conveyor. We know that our invention can be used in the industry, stores, and school. Your vote is important to each one of us. "The Cleansing Conveyor makes it all clean. It takes all the stress right off my spleen. Because E. coli... it's mean, but now it's clean, it's gone, we're moving on."
Team Location:
Montclair New Jersey 07042
United States
Category:
Transportation/Distribution

Brief Submission Description:
The Cleansing Conveyor is an improved conveyor belt that resembles ones in supermarkets, but stays clean by itself. It prevents cross-contamination in factories, stores, and school. Have you ever seen your parents separate their food at the checkout counter? We’ve tried it. But, we’re placing food on already contaminated conveyor belts (even by the customer’s purchase just before ours). Our invention eliminates cross-contamination. As our conveyor belt circulates, an ultra-violet light kills the bacteria. The ultra-violet light is built beneath to cleanse it during every purchase that each customer makes. Factories will use our larger versions to sanitize conveyor belts that process foods by the bulk. Smaller lunch table sized versions will be inserted into lunch tables, so that students all over the world can eat on sterile tables. The lunch staff can simply press a button and input a staff code to activate it between lunches. With your vote, the problems are solved.