"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects."
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example, tents are sometimes strong, sometimes they can compact really small, and sometimes they're easily deployable, but almost never are they all three, but Miura-ori could potentially solve that problem,"
"I found that Miura-ori was really strong, light, and folds down really compactly."
Miles Wu, a 14-year-old from New York City, won a $25,000 award for research on the Miura-ori origami fold, known for precise collapsing and expanding. He investigated whether the fold's strength-to-weight ratio can improve deployable emergency structures. He tested how much weight the Miura fold could handle across different paper types, parallelogram heights, widths, and angles, conducting months of experiments. The project was recognized by the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Wu connected his research to recent natural disasters and to existing STEM applications of origami, finding that Miura-ori is strong, lightweight, and folds very compactly.
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