March Newsletter
Another jam-packed month
82 days till summer but work still feels like a bummer. Hello everyone and welcome back to my monthly newsletter. My name is Unmol Sharma and I am a 14-year-old student at UCC and an innovator at The Knowledge Society. I am an avid sports fan specifically basketball🏀 and football🏈 (If you want to talk about anything basketball-related hit me up🤔) and am an enthusiast in many scientific fields including Nuclear Fusion and climate change🌊. Throughout my newsletters, I will be talking about some projects, experiences, and overall highlights of the month along with some key takeaways and recommendations for this month.
Overall, this has been another jam-packed month 🧳 but unlike February where we had a lot of stuff due, I found that in March I found myself striving for more opportunities to do work and create content while setting deadlines for myself to follow. School just started again but I am excited for some new opportunities that will hopefully come in April.
The Flash Falcon✈️
Over the last month, I have been working on my review which is about a Fusion-powered plane called the Flash Falcon.
Flash Falcon (FF) is a concept futuristic jet from Oscar Vinals. This futuristic airplane can be created in the next 15–20 years when fusion energy is fully developed. It’s an environmentally friendly jet with two decks that can accommodate up to 250 passengers in very comfortable conditions. A wonderful vision of the future, the Flash Falcon concept plane is designed to run on carbon-free energy that would power up a supersonic engine, based on a portable fusion reactor, and six electric-combustion engines as well. The plane is entirely emission-free and can travel at supersonic speeds, 3x times the speed of sound‼️ This can not only save time throughout the world but take out all pollution in the aviation industry making our solution to climate change be way nearer.
The review article for this project is coming out soon and I did a presentation on this as well.
Global Challenge🛒
In February and March, I was given the opportunity to work alongside Walmart and some of my closest friends in TKS in redesigning the Walmart store of 2030🥶. Walmart has over 10,500 stores and clubs in 24 countries, operating under 48 different names. Walmart is the world's largest company by revenue, with US$548.743 billion, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2020. It is also the largest private employer in the world with 2.2 million employees. Walmart has built an empire by offering everyday low prices to its customers and one-stop shopping for everyday items. Walmart created BlueLabs to incubate disruptive and radical innovations that will transform the future of retail. This was the problem statement they posed:
Walmart is reinventing the retail store of the future for 2030. How do we recreate the physical store environment to be exciting and engaging for customers, by offering new services and experiences?
Our group put in a lot of work, especially in the last two weeks of our challenge, and truly gave it our 100% effort. I learned a lot from this challenge from tangible things like slide design to implementing advice to creating affordable, feasible, amazing inventions that can truly help the company (something you don’t see often when researching Nuclear Fusion🌅). Though the true value I got from this challenge is the brotherhood that I received from my group and getting closer to other really smart people. My group was truly phenomenal and we helped each other down at our lowest and motivated each other to reach our highest potential without forgetting the casual goofing off. My goal coming into TKS this year was to have a lot of important, valuable, deep, and fun relationships with a lot of smart people trying to solve the world’s biggest problems and I think it’s safe to say that I achieved this goal, the biggest goal of all.
New content💻
This month I took the opportunity to set deadlines for myself to produce good content. I have been working hard researching four different topics all correlating to the possibility of successfully delaying the harsh reality of climate change with tech and solutions such as solar geoengineering, photovoltaic cells, fusion energy, portable fusion reactors, and even the possibility of relocating to Mars.
Without further ado here are my published articles:
3 more articles are in progress
Goals
Goals for March
-Come top 10 in the global challenge👎
(results didn’t get released)
-Finish focus presentation👍
-Finish review👎
(so close)
-Publish more content👍
Goals for April
-Wake up at 6 am or before every day
-Finish review
-3 articles published
-get back into playing basketball