Country: Poland
School/ organization: Szramek High School in Katowice
Delegation leader/ teacher: Mariusz Kamrowski, Bożena Kurzeja
Students: Magdalena Kita, Wiktor Sawicz, Jan Swadźba, Mateusz Halladin
In the project, we focus on the quality of air in our city – Katowice. We monitor the smog levels in Katowice by means of a smog detector which we assembled. We would like to show the process of assembling the detector. With those two things – our smog detector and the constant monitoring of the pollution levels in our city – we want to inform the inhabitants of Katowice of the quality of air they breathe. Everybody can check the concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 in the air in Katowice, as the smog detector operates in a global network, openSenseMap.org (https://opensensemap.org/explore/5be3f423cdfcd0001ccc119d). To disseminate our project, we have produced and distributed leaflets among the people in the neighborhood so that they are aware of the fact that they can check the quality of air on a daily basis. We also monitor the concentration of NO2 and SO2. To this end, we have
installed sampling tubes, and cooperate with the “Napraw Sobie Miasto” [Repair your city] Foundation as well as The University of Silesia, Department of Chemistry, where we send the samples for analysis. We have also filmed an educational video of smog, showing how it is created and what negative consequences it brings about.
Assembling the smog detector.
Smog in Katowice.
SO2 and NO2 sampling tubes.