Since age nine, Eden Full has been tinkering with solar panels, looking for ways to make them more efficient and easy to use. She is particularly interested in helping people living in developing countries.
Eden Full’s winning project, Dynamic Photovoltaics, is a passive solar tracker that moves panels towards the sun using inexpensive, environmentally-safe materials that are commonly found in developing countries and elsewhere. The device maximizes the efficiency of solar panels by having them track the sun during the course of the day, and can be easily maintained and repaired with simple instructions. Her use of bi-metallic strips to facilitate movement is particularly innovative.
“I am very honoured to be a recipient of the Weston Youth Innovation Award. It will greatly benefit the fruition of the Dynamic Photovoltaics project as I pursue the patenting and implementation of my photovoltaics system in developing countries. I can only hope that one day I can use my passion to contribute to benefiting others’ lives, and encourage other like-minded youth to do so as well.”
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The Weston Youth Innovation Award is generously supported by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation and is administered by the Ontario Science Centre