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Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne1, Diana Hernández2, Katarina Wengerter3
1University of California Los Angeles, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health.
Abstract:
The South Bronx in New York City is an economically disempowered community that is overburdened by environmental injustice including traffic-related air pollution. Through a partnership between South Bronx Unite (SBU), a local nonprofit organization1, the Laboratory School of Finance and Technology (X223), and Columbia University, a STEM initiative was launched. Together the team developed a curriculum in which high school students used the Arduino open electronics platform to build air monitors. The students then engaged in grass-roots efforts to launch the installation of the monitors to create a locally managed air monitoring network in the South Bronx. Here we describe the development of a curriculum as an educational air monitoring tool and explore the increased capacity of youth to address environmental health concerns.
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