‘Gadgets Galore’ on display at Cupertino museum

Gadgets Galore

The Cupertino Historical Society and Museum is collaborating with Exhibit Envoy on “Gadgets Galore!,” an exhibit that tells the story of 20th and 21st century home life—from chores to personal care to entertainment—through the evolution of household tools, machines and gadgets.

The exhibit runs through March 21 at the museum, located inside the Quinlan Community Center at 10185 N. Stelling Road. For more information, visit https://cupertinomuseum.org.

A brainy idea

Cupertino High School is among 50 U.S. public middle and high schools moving forward as state winners in the 15th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow national STEM competition. Cupertino High was awarded a $12,000 Samsung technology prize package, including a video kit to showcase their proposed STEM solution.

The students on Cupertino High School’s team developed Neuropod, a user-friendly, non-invasive EEG device designed to make brain health monitoring accessible and affordable. Through Neuropod, the team hopes to democratize brain health monitoring, making it available to those who need it most but often lack the resources to access traditional EEG technology.

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is a national competition for students in grades 6-12 to use STEM education to create solutions for critical issues in their local communities.

As a group, this year’s state winners showed that they are most concerned with environmental sustainability and climate disasters (28%), public health (26%) and accessibility (20%), followed by public safety and mental health. Their entries used technologies like AI (42%), 3D printing (34%) and robotics (14%) to bring their ideas to life.