Food Packaging, Easy Shopping
The document outlines various activities related to investigating food packaging materials and their properties. It discusses how different materials like polystyrene and corn starch degrade differently in water. It also compares the mass of packaging to product mass for different juice containers. Graphs show how packaging materials have different insulating properties. The document then shifts to discussing a student project called "Easy Shopping" which aims to help blind customers find products in supermarkets using a mobile app and Braille labels. It provides the hypothesis, methods, results and recommendations for the project. In conclusion, the author thanks teachers and partners for their support in learning about food packaging through the Al-Bairaq program.
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- 1. AL-Bairaq I am DiscoveringMaterials Food Packaging
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- 3. Food Packaging *Food Packagingis Packing Food with different martials To Provide Tampering Resistance, Special Physical, Chemical or Biological Needs . Bearing in mind the environment and a good design to appeal to customers.
- 4. Green PeanutWhite Peanut Didn’tDegrade InWaterDegraded InWater Made Of PolystyreneMade Of Corn Starch Comparing Food Packaging materials • Part A: Biodegradable materials
- 5. Activity 1 • PartB: Comparing packing materials
- 6. Activity 2 Investigating FoodPackaging:
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- 8. Activity 4 Evaluating TheImpact of Food Packaging on The Environment: Product Materials Used Predicted Rating Total Mass Mass of Packaging MassOf Product Packaging /Product Ratio Ranking Juice Can Aluminum 1 89.6g 9.6g 180ml 0.053 2 Juice Bottle Plastic 3 217g 17g 200ml 0.085 3 Juice Cartoon Paper 2 261.7g 11.7g 250ml 0.047 1
- 9. Activity 5 Researching foodpackaging materials Plastic bags Paper bags Lightweight Six to ten times heavier Easy to transport because of it’s lightweight Require more transport because it is heavy Most bags are now biodegradable or recyclable takes up more space in landfills if it was not recycled Paper bags cost lot of many in industry Related to paper the plastic doesn't cost lots
- 10. Activity 6 Designing AProtective Package: ControlTomato Experimental Tomato h Nothing happened Nothing happened 1m Spoiled Nothing happened 2m ---------------- Nothing happened 3m
- 11. Activity 7 Comparing TheInsulating Properties Of Packaging Materials: Min Without With 0 70 72 1 68 71 2 66 70 3 65 70 4 64 69 5 63 68 6 61 68 7 60 67 8 59 66 9 58 65 10 57 65
- 12. Easy Shopping Our projectis a mobile application that helps customers specially blind people to find any product in the supermarket easily and provide information such as price of the desired product.
- 13. Easy Shopping Hypothesis: We thoughtthat if we make an application that leads blind people to the products they want inside a supermarket and add a braille writing to the products for them to double check it would be a great and successful idea.
- 14. Easy Shopping Methods andMaterials • Scanning barcode at entrance of the supermarket. • The application will open and the customer will tell the phone what he needs using voice command. • The application will provide him information about the product such as the price and then it will guide him to the product • The customer will check if he has the right product using braille writings on the package. Method: Materials used: Software: App machine Hardware: mobile + laptop Adding braille writing on products
- 15. Easy Shopping Results andBenefits : • - It increases the sales profit. • - It makes shopping easier for blind people. • - It helps the market attract more customers.
- 16. Easy shopping Recommendations: • -Werecommend applying our project in supermarkets and we hope that the sponsors adopt and improve our project. • -We recommend using Braille writing on all food packages.
- 17. Conclusion We learnt alot of new information about different food packages and the use of them from Al-Bairaq and it helped Us to improve our teamwork skills and How to create and invent.
- 18. Acknowledgment Many thanks tomy teachers, school and AL-Bairaq team from Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), Qatar University for supporting us during our journey with a AL-Bairaq. Also, I would like to thank the partners UNESCO, Qatar National Commission and the gold sponsors Ras Gas, Maersk oil and the silver sponsor Shell.