Entry Title:	PMSU: Portable Multi-Sensory Unit
Coach:	Rhonda Epstein
School:	Solana Pacific Elementary School
City/State:	San Diego, CA
Problem:	Children with severe multiple disabilities (SMD) often do not receive adequate sensory stimulation.
Solution:	PMSU: Portable Multi-Sensory Unit – a sensory stimulation device for severe multiple disabilities that is portable and adjustable.

Entry Title:	Quail Gone Quiet
Coach:	Suzanne Greenwood
School:	St. Therese School
City/State:	Parkville, MO
Problem:	The decline in Missouri's Bobwhite Quail population.
Solution:	Outreach program to educate the community about the importance and rehabilitation of the Bobwhite Quail population.

Entry Title:	Catch a Breath
Coach:	Stephen Kubricki
School:	All Saints Regional Catholic School
City/State:	Manahawkin, NJ
Problem:	Poor air quality at the school.
Solution:	Regulate the school's ventilation system on a timed computer-generated program as well as enact legislation to closely regulate schools' ventilation and air quality.

Entry Title:	Never Too Old to Learn or Never Too Young to Teach
Coach:	William Schmidt
School:	The Laurel Hill School
City/State:	East Setauket, NY
Problem:	Large number of people over the age of 60 who don't know how to use the Internet.
Solution:	Education outreach program to teach seniors how to use a computer.

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Entry Title:	Trash to Treasure
Coach:	Lindsay Young
School:	Bexley City Schools
City/State:	Bexley, OH
Problem:	Depletion of fossil fuels.
Solution:	Use the methane gas produced at landfills as an alternative source of energy.

Entry Title:	Backpack Attack!
Coach:	Nancy Sauers
School:	Holland Middle School
City/State:	Holland, PA
Problem:	Heavy backpacks causing back, neck and shoulder pain.
Solution:	Raise awareness of the harm caused by heavy backpacks, implement backpack-lightening habits and introduce the L-Pak, a device that turns a shoulder pack into a roller pack.

Entry Title:	Exhausted? We Are!
Coach:	Daryl Grantham
School:	Pin Oak Middle School
City/State:	Bellaire, TX
Problem:	Adjacent freeway polluting the school's air quality.
Solution:	Improve monitoring of air quality, institute steps to reduce emissions and initiate communication with the community about air pollution.

Entry Title:	Sunbusters: Safe-Tea Sunscreen
Coach:	Laura Wilbanks
School:	Science Rocks U
City/State:	Whiteface, TX
Problem:	Skin cancer.
Solution:	Outreach program to inform others about "sun safety" and creation of a fragrance- and chemical-free sunscreen formulated from green tea.

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