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Callum Predavec: Hi, I’m Callum, I’m 15 and I’m in Year 10.

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Declan Predavec: I’m Declan, I am 13 and I’m in Year 8.

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Callum Predavec: And this is our project Hi-Viz Bike.

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Our project is a bike safety system, designed to try and make cycling safer for all riders.

Declan Predavec: It has cases custom built for every part of it, which are a laser line on the ground, which warns cars away from bikes and shows them the one metre, legal distance they have to stay away. A set of indicators on the front and back, which allow cyclists to signal where they are going without taking their hands off the handlebars and the brakes and a proximity sensor, that warns cars if they get too close.

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Callum Predavec: Since our mother had the accident with a car coming in behind her, we decided to focus on the back of the bike, ‘cause that was the area that the cyclist can’t monitor.

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We then decided to try and add in safety systems for the back, such as a proximity sensor and the laser line,

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to clearly mark out and warn cars if they get too close.

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Our project would help all cyclists, whether you ride just for fun or to work. It would also help law enforcement, as there’s a legal one metre distance that cars have to stay away from bikes and this would allow Police to help enforce it, by showing them clearly where the legal limit is.

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I’ve always been quite curious about the mechanical side of things. In art museums I’m sometimes more interested in the air-conditioning than the actual pieces of art themselves.

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Declan Predavec: Unlike Callum, I do like art. I also like technology, I’ve always been very curious, wanting to know how things work.

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I like playing games; I do that quite a lot. I like programming, I ride my bike to school and I go to the gym every Monday.

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Callum Predavec: I also like to spend time looking at the stars through my telescope seeing things like the Rings of Saturn, and also playing a game called Kerbal Space Program, which allows you to manage a space program and send kerbals to the moon, mars and beyond.

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Declan Predavec: I feel like science and engineering just give you the opportunity to explore and innovate and try new things. Part of the whole thing about science is discovering new things and disproving things and exploring all of the stuff which just hasn’t been thought about before.

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Callum Predavec: Science and engineering combine really well to allow us to learn from the natural world and then use that to build even more impressive things of our own.

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