A bottle or can would be placed in the tube where a barrier in the tube allows a colour sensor to look for a coloured dot on the bottle.
To determine which colour dot would be printed on the bottle, a Mindstorms and an Arduino sensor was used to test 12 different coloured dots for accuracy.
Mehta notes she’s also on the robotics team at her school, and has always had an interest in science and technology.
The Ted Rogers Innovation Award was added to programming in 2018 to recognize Canadian students who express an entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrate commercial potential for their project.
There are always points in these projects where it feels impossible and they don’t know how to go ahead.