Eniola Shokunbi is on a mission – to protect children and schools from poor indoor air quality by promoting the use of simple do it yourself air filters that the students can make themselves.

Now it has become a science project for students in Connecticut schools that also will improve their health. 

Eniola is in eighth grade now but she’s been working on this since she was 10 years old and in fifth grade at the Commodore MacDonough STEM Academy in Middletown, Connecticut.

“A lot of my friends were getting sick with allergies and sicknesses,” Eniola said. She had the idea of conducting an experiment to see if better air quality improved student attendance, using the Corsi-Rosenthal box which was born after wildfire smoke and the COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in demand for air purifiers.