Sun Screen of the Meeting
Banana boat was sun screen was organized this year to combat greasy and medical-grade sunscreens.
What is 1976?
This type of invisible light from the sun causes skin damage and increases cancer risk.
What is Ultraviolet Radiation (UV rays)?
What was Heman Bekele's award winning invention?
What is Skin Cancer Treating Soap?
This number on Banana Boat sunscreen indicates how well it protects against UVB rays, with common options including SPF 30 and SPF 50+.
What is SPF?
This daily scale tells you how strong the sun’s rays are and how quickly skin damage can occur.
What is the UV index?
How much money did Heman Bekele win through the Young Scientist Lab Competition?
What is 25,000?
Banana Boat SPF 15 and higher products carry this organization’s recommendation for effective UV protection.
What is the Skin Cancer Foundation?
Experts advise doing this every two hours—or sooner after swimming or sweating—to stay protected.
What is reapplying sunscreen?
How old was Heman Bekele when he won America's Top Young Scientist?
What is 14 years old?
Many Banana Boat sunscreens, including Daily Protect SPF 50+, are water‑ and sweat‑resistant for this amount of time.
What is 80+ minutes?
Repeated UV exposure increases the risk of this disease, the most common form of cancer in the U.S.
What is skin cancer?
Dr. Jewel Plummer was rejected from this university because of her race, prompting her to fight for admission and eventually earn her master’s degree there.
What is New York University (NYU)?
The type of vitamin that is the main base in in moisturising sun cream lotion.
What is Vitamin C?
These dark-looking spots on the skin, can appear more noticeable after too much sun exposure because UV rays darken the oil in clogged pores.
What are blackheads?
Adewole S. Adamson serves as an assistant professor in the Division of Dermatology at this Texas medical school.
What is Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin?