Boyan Slat’s concept involves anchoring 24 sifters to the ocean floor and letting the sea’s own currents direct the plastic bits into miles of booms, or connected chains of timbers used to catch floating objects. What started out as a college paper earned Slat the Best Technical Design award from Delft University of Technology. Jake Andraka developed a new, rapid, and inexpensive method to detect an increase of a protein that indicates the presence of pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer during early stages when there is a higher likelihood of a cure. His Cancer Test 100 Times More Sensitive & 26,000 Times Cheaper than Current Tests. He is the recipient of the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, the grand prize of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 03:35:10 +0000