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At the White House Science Fair today, students from Petersburg, Indiana, exhibited this compact emergency shelter. The team “won a grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to develop a lightweight, portable disaster relief shelter, designed to be complete with a water purification system and a renewable energy source to power an LED light, which could be used after disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes to house people who have been displaced,” according to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Science journalist Miles O’Brien, who tweeted the snapshot of the shelter, wrote that the shelter weighs 120lbs and can be assembled in 30 minutes.
More on the science fair here.
