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#WorldStudentsDay
Ninth-grade students Sanjula Sreekumar, Vyshak Ajit and Madhumati Anand of Amrita Vidyalayam, Kollam (Kerala), have created an ultralight body of cane, jute and straw for dropping delicate payloads. Image
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Sanjula researched the medical angle, studying the type of emergency supplies required to be transported.

Madhumati took up the core design of the delivery platform, turning to an engineering principle called Tensegrity.
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Vyshak explored how to slow down the fall of the payload structure, a complex task still being addressed.
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1/5 #DisasterRelief UPDATE:
After a wait of far too long the Senate has passed a disaster aid package & expect House to pass tonight or tomorrow.

It has $19.1 billion in supplemental aid, an increase of $7 billion over the bill passed earlier by the House.
#sayfie
2/5 #DisasterRelief UPDATE:
For #Florida this bill:
- Provides $1.67 billion for operations & to begin rebuilding @TeamTyndall
- $480 million for timber restoration
- $150 million for fishery losses which Northwest Florida will be eligible for a portion of
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#Sayfie
3/5 #DisasterRelief UPDATE:
- $2.4 billion for CDBG Disaster Relief which HUD can use to help Northwest #Florida
- An extension of the National Flood Insurance Program until September 30,2019 which was about to expire at the end of this month (continued)

#Sayfie
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Democrats are simply asking for action on the broad set of bipartisan priorities before the Congress:/1 #ABetterDeal #DemPartyPlatform #Democrats #DemForce #DemPriorities
Keep government open: While Republicans control the House and the Senate, and President Trump said earlier this year that ‘our country needs a good shutdown,’ Democrats want to keep government open./2
#ABetterDeal #DemPriorities #Democrats
Raise the caps: Democrats want a strong national defense. We also need an equal increase in our domestic budget, which includes critical national security functions and commitments to hard working families. #ABetterDeal #DemPriorities #DemsWork4USA
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