If you want to cook, you're going to eventually have to break some eggs. But what if you could put those shells to work and help save the planet at the same time?
Bay Area student engineers won an international biodesign competition by turning eggshells into building materials.Building a better Bay Area often requires innovation. Take the case of some Bay Area students who were recent winners at an international biodesign competition -- turning eggshells into architecture.
"So, these are brown eggshells which are actually washed and then baked in the oven. Not too much heat," said Miti Mehta, a design student at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. "The whole thing started with, like, our first assignment, where we were just told to make something, like just make something out of waste," Mehta said.High school students get hands-on experience with internships at UCSF Kanbar Center for Simulation
"We figured out why not do them in a similar way as bricks are made right now. So we made some molds out of DPA and PLA with 3D printers," Franco said.
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