8/22/2019 IETE ISF-The Tabellio 2 http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/iete-isf-the-tabellio-2 1/9 Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers Students’ Forum presents... The Tabellio, VIT University. [email protected]August 2013 THEME: YOUNG ACHIEVE RS IN A GIST CHARGE YOUR PHONE IN UNDER 30 SECONDS In what could be called as a breakthrough in the field of communication, EESHA KHARE, who is only 18 year old, created a device which could charge your mobile phone in under 30 seconds. Read more to find all about her revolutionary invention. Continued on page 3. 15 YEAR OLD BOY INVENTS TEST FOR PANCREATIC CANCER At 15, JACK ANDRAKA beat out billion dollar pharmaceutical companies with his diagnostic cancer test. Keep reading to know how and why he created a system to detect pancreatic cancer. Continued on page 4. WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES: NFC AND RFID Increase your tech quotient and read about how mobile payment is made and shop lifting is prevented with the help of these two amazing wirelesstechnologies. Continued on page 5. Issue No. 2 IETE -ISF R E A C H I N G O U T RoboTryst 2013 Industrial Visit to Brakes India Ltd. Riviera 2013 event- Jigmix OPEN SOURCE VS. CLOSED SOURCE Open source systems vs. closed source systems have been subjected to numerous debates. We compare the pros and cons. Continued on page 6.
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FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK...Greetings and a warm welcome to the second issue of The Tabellio!
Our team is delighted to present to you another issue of The Tabellio wherein we aim to provide you with knowledge about
the latest technology, information on the latest conferences, competitions and much more.
Since childhood we have heard terms such as “Jack of all trades and master of none” and have been told to focus only on one
thing and pursue it with full dedication and determination. However, many of us actually take the literal meaning of this
phrase and end up focusing only on one particular aspect ignoring the rest without realizing the possible influence one topic
may have over another .
Thomas Henry Huxley, also known as “Darwin’s bulldog” who is famously known for coining the term “agnostic” said,“Try tolearn something of everything and everything of something”. This gives a deeper insight on how one should actually proceed
on the path of knowledge. Having basic knowledge about as many topics as possible will only have a positive influence on your
dedicated path to progress. It is important to focus on your goal whole heartedly but negligence towards other aspects may
prove costly in the long run. To summarize, with perseverance, hard work and dedication one can strive to become “The jack
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IETE-ISF brings to you the second edition of the news letter and this time it is designed based on the theme “Young
Achievers”. It is always fascinating to see any new invention coming up, but what can be even more astonishing is the fact that
many of these inventions are by teenagers! While these people are not child prodigies as such, they are quite unique and
different from others as they strived hard for making their dream come true at such a young age. We cover two such stories in
this issue- 18 year old Eesha Khare’s invention of a charger that charges a cell phone in less than 30 seconds and 15 year old
Jack Andraka’s diagnostic stick for pancreatic cancer. We also have an article on the current wireless technologies- RFID and
NFC, which are not only used widely nowadays but are extremely easy to understand too. Apart from that, we also cover the
very famous debate of “Open Source vs. Closed Source”.
While the first issue was based on ‘Fun with technology’, we have tried to experiment with this issue and we bring to you
heartwarming stories of young achievers of today, their inventions and what lead them into doing so.
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15 year old boy invents test for PancreaticCancerDIAGNOSIS A MATTER OF JUST 5 MINUTES.
Jack is already working on a patent for his revolutionary life saving test.
At 15, most of us worry about our homework, a match of football or a party we are supposed to attend. Well this was not what
Jack Andraka had in his mind when he started his research in 2011.Pancreatic cancer is a lethal cancer, with five year survival rate
of 6% only. In most cases, the diagnosis is very late for treatment. Around 40,000 people die of this disease every year. “By the
time you bring this to a physician, it’s too late,” said Anirban Maitra, a Johns Hopkins university’s pathologist and pancreatic
cancer researcher who is also Andraka’s mentor.
As the cancer takes hold of the body, the body sends out a distress signal – an overabundance of a protein called ‘Mesothelin’. Jack invented a dipstick which can detect the protein in blood or urine. This test is 90% accurate. Thus this makes the diagnosis a
matter of 5 minutes.Jack who hails from Maryland, USA was born in 1997. One of his close family friends died of pancreatic
cancer in 2011.What led him into the journey of this discovery accounts for an interesting story. When one fine day Jack was
sitting in his biology class, listening to a lecture of antibodies which bind to a particular protein in body, the idea struck him. He
had been using carbon nanotubes for screening some compounds from water along with his father, who is a civil engineer. In the
class he thought of combining both these ideas. What if he could lace a nanotube network with mesothelin-specific antibodies,
and then introduce a drop of a pancreatic cancer patient’s blood? The antibodies would bind to the mesothelin and enlarge.
These beefed-up molecules would spread the nanotubes farther apart, changing the electrical properties of the network: The
more mesothelin was to be present, the more antibodies would bind and grow big, and the weaker the electrical signal would
become. This could be used to test for pancreatic cancer at an earlier stage, thus saving thousands of lives.Jack wrote an
experimental protocol and e-mailed it to about 200 researchers. Only Maitra responded and decided to invite him in his lab.
What he expected was that he would see Jack around once a week but instead, young Jack worked religiously for seven months,every day after school and often on Saturdays until after midnight.He had not even finished his freshman Biology, so had lots to
learn.It was actually this way he ended up making the strips quite cheap and effective.His dedication and hard work finally paid
off when at 15, Jack Andraka won the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, the grand prize of the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair along with prize money of $75000. Andraka also won other prizes in smaller individual categories for a total of
$100,500 in prize money. Another addition to his achievements is a fourth place award in Chemistry at the 2013 Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair with a project focusing on a novel Raman spectrometer with real world applications.
Although his invention requires some improvisation, achieving this feat at such an early age might be enough of work for a
lifetime for a teenager but this is not stopping Jack at all! Maitra rightly calls him “Edison of our times”.
Jack speaks after receiving Smithsonian Magazine first annual American Ingenuity Award for youth
achievement on November 28,2012 in Washington, DC.