I’m mostly interested in robotics and building and my favorite subjects at school are coding, math and English, because you get to do different activities and they’re always fun. I go to Harmony Science Academy in Lubbock, Texas, I’m in the fourth grade right now and I’m nine years old.
In my spare time I mostly play with my Lego, but I was inspired to make a robotic hand sanitizer dispenser after I was at the hospital in June 2020 when my sister was born. We couldn’t touch anything at the hospital because of the pandemic, but we were using hand sanitizer where you had to push the pump. The thought came to my mind: why can’t I just make a machine that works without touching anything? One where you just put your hand under it and it squirts out hand sanitizer.
My Dad and I started looking for blueprints online, we went on YouTube and started searching videos. It probably took us about a…