'Owl Force One' D-I-Y air filter made by Connecticut elementary school children (IMAGE)
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The UConn Indoor Air Quality Initiative launched during COVID-19 to help battle the virus inside public schools. The simple, inexpensive purifiers, known as Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, can be assembled in 30 minutes with $60 worth of hardware store supplies. “It is critical that we all know how to protect ourselves. Teaching our community how they can stay safe and prevent illness from exposure to bad air is critical,” says initiative director Marina Creed, APRN, instructor of neurology at UConn School of Medicine. “This device can help everyone access free, clean indoor air.” The U.S. EPA tested the efficacy of the device using “Owl Force One,” the box made by members of the Initiative with fifth graders at Commodore Macdonough Elementary School, a public school in Middletown, Connecticut. The road trip to the EPA this July was sparked by then fifth grader, Eniola Shokunbi, 9, now a six-grader, from Middletown who wrote and mailed UConn a letter inviting them to her public school to help her class build the air cleaner and perform experiments. Eniola is pictured with her classmates with "Owl Force One."
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