Georgian youth invited to NASA innovation summit

A unique invention by two Georgian youth has grabbed the attention of NASA, the world’s largest air and space research agency.

Karlo Khutsishvili and Irakli Kapanadze, both 16 from the small city of Akhaltsikhe in southwestern Georgia, invented the "Multiclimatizator” - an innovative device that could predict the weather and define soil productivity.

The invention was interesting enough to see the young inventors be invited to participate in the annual innovation summit at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States on April 9-11, 2015.

Khutsishvili and Kapanadze will be the first Georgians to participate in the NASA innovation summit.

Earlier, the boys’ project was recognised at the Millennium Innovations Award competition carried out by the Millennium Challenge Account – Georgia in Tbilisi.

Karlo Khutsishvili (L), Irakli Kapanadze and Georgia's Education Minister Tamar Sanikidze.

As well as predicting the weather, the invention can also measure the humidity and temperature of the soil. The new tool could enable farmers to preserve their crops.

The boys supplemented their invention with a small unmanned aircraft called "Droni" that would allow the measuring of humidity and temperature and forecast the expected weather from a long distance away instead of just locally.

Droni was equipped with a GPS tracker and a transmitter unit that allowed it to communicate the atmospheric readings from the area it was currently in, as well as store the data on a memory card.