Dr. Milton’s PHABlab set up a booth where students, alumni, and community members built their own Corsi-Rosenthal boxes at UMD’s Maryland Day
“DIY air filtration units can be an effective means of reducing aerosol exposure. The DIY units reduced aerosol exposure up to 73%”
Parents call for better air quality in schools
“We would not accept drinking water that is full of pathogens and looks dirty, but we’ve been living with air that is full of pathogens and dirty.”
Called Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, the makeshift purifiers can also help with mold and other toxins.
For educators, dealing with COVID has required a multi-pronged approach. That includes a DIY air filter. But now, an innovative group of ASU students has gotten creative to protect students in classrooms. Reporter Molly McBride showed us how those filters are made.
Liesl McConchie successfully got a school wide adoption of filter boxes. These are the documents she developed to communicate with interested parties.
ASU volunteers builds air filter boxes, which are donated to K–12 schools to help fight COVID-19.
Lots of parents, teachers and students have found themselves recently with a timely project: making homemade air filters for classrooms and school spaces to help protect from the spread of COVID-19.
