Milpitas group briefs for the week of July 29

Artwork demo set

The Golden Hills Art Affiliation of Milpitas will keep its month to month meeting on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 7 pm. in the neighborhood room of the Milpitas Police Department, 1275 N. Milpitas Blvd.

The meeting will feature a demonstration by abstract artist Rachael Tirosh at 8:15 p.m. Tirosh’s operate is a course of action of layering water with pigment and glue, scraping off and scratching into the surface area several instances.

Milpitas student wins 3M honors

A sixth-grader at Stratford University in Milpitas was just lately honored for her participation in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge in partnership with Discovery Education.

Delisha Manuel, 11, was a single of 4 pupils to get honorable point out for her innovative concepts and efficient interaction through her presentation. Her project studied the likelihood of harvesting the mechanical drive of the cars on the street as a sort of thoroughly clean electrical power.

“According to Newton’s 3rd Law, the autos go forward by pushing again on the highway,” Delisha explained. “If the road is equipped with equipment that can convert this mechanical pressure into electrical energy, then it will end result in a form of considerable clean electrical power.”

This phenomenon is identified as piezoelectricity. Delisha conducted experiments to measure the marriage amongst the mechanical force and the generated electrical voltage using a toy car and a piezoelectric tile.

“From my experiments, I discovered that the greater the power utilized on a piezoelectric tile, the more the voltage produced,” she reported. “This is extremely helpful simply because rushing cars exert a good offer of drive on the street. If piezoelectric resources are embedded less than the street surface, they can deliver a really substantial amount of money of electrical energy.”

For extra details on her project, visit