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When gunshots are detected, a text message is sent to students and staff with the location, based on which sensor is triggered on campus. Police will also receive an automated phone call with the information.

The team says it spent about $90 creating this prototype. Some parents in San Jose met with district leaders last month to voice their concerns after multiple emergency lockdown situations, and a ghost gun being confiscated at Willow Glen High School.

Parents in San Jose met with district leaders last month to voice their concerns after multiple emergency lockdown situations, and a ghost gun being confiscated at Willow Glen High School. Meanwhile, the team has been contemplating their next move after entering their project in NASA’s Conrad Challenge competing against over 950 student teams from around the world. They were given the Pete Conrad Scholars Award which includes $7,000 in scholarships to the TKS global innovation program.

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