{"id":201861,"date":"2023-07-26T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=201861"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:04:31","slug":"epa-begins-testing-owl-force-one-d-i-y-air-cleaner-made-by-connecticut-public-school-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/07\/epa-begins-testing-owl-force-one-d-i-y-air-cleaner-made-by-connecticut-public-school-children\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Begins Testing ‘Owl Force One’ DIY Air Cleaner Made by Connecticut Public School Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019re here to test \u2018Owl Force One\u2019 against MS2. A student from Connecticut has created this box with her classroom of fifth graders. We are taking the kids\u2019 creation and testing it in a state-of-the-art 3,000 cubic ft. biochamber!\u201d says Marina Creed, APRN<\/a>, director of the UConn Indoor Air Quality Initiative.<\/p>\n

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‘Owl Force One’ at the EPA on July 26 started being testing in the agency’s large bioaerosol test chamber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The device \u2018Owl Force One\u2019 was built, named and decorated by a 9-year-old fifth grader and her classmates<\/a> with members of the UConn Indoor Air Quality Initiative<\/a>\u00a0at Commodore MacDonough STEM Academy in Middletown, Connecticut. An owl is the school\u2019s mascot.<\/p>\n

For two weeks the EPA scientists will be testing the efficacy of the inexpensive DIY device against the non-pathogenic bacteriophage MS2, a surrogate virus for\u00a0SARS-CoV-2,<\/em>\u00a0the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The UConn road trip to the EPA\u2019s Office of Research and Development in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina included Creed from UConn Health, with co-collaborators Kristina Wagstrom, Ph.D<\/a>. of UConn School of Engineering and\u00a0Misti Zamora, Ph.D.<\/a> of UConn School of Medicine. They were joined by fifth grader, Eniola Shokunbi, 9, from Middletown who wrote and mailed UConn a letter inviting them to her public school to help her class build the air purifier device and perform experiments.<\/p>\n

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