14-Year-old is America's Top Young Scientist: Her Solar-Powered Jug Purifies Water

A 14-year-old New York student was named "America's Top Young Scientist" for inventing a solar-powered water jug that changes dirty water into purified drinking water.

Deepika Kurup not only had to surpass 9 finalists in science and math to win $25,000 from Discovery Education and 3M, she persuaded the judges with a dynamic five-minute LIVE presentation about the plight of a billion poor people who have no access to clean drinking water. (This video features her winning presentation.)

Her cost effective and sustainable water-purification system, which harnesses solar energy to disinfect contaminated water utilizes an innovative process designed to overcome current problems with portable purification.

(See more young scientists in the Good News Network story at this link:
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[OmgzFlyingChocolate]

This is what 14 year olds should be doing instead of smoking and drinking because yolo

[TheCrowpoop]

Shes 14 and a top scientist, and im 18, dumb and sitting behind my desk masturbating.....

[goiban sebastyan]

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[TheHtownmuscle]

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[Andy Roid]

She won't be selling it as the rights will already be with 3M.

But SODIS is still logical method. Her method would be ridiculously expensive, raking in mass profits for 3M whereas SODIS is free. Only takes a few hours longer and cleans up waste plastic bottles in the process.

[jackbrightside]

forsure, raised by american parents too no less i would assume, right? she cares about iphones, and facebook and getting a car for her 16th birthday right? nah, this is a product of indian parents, not america or america society, and definitely not the american school systems

[Andy Roid]

She's American.

[Andy Roid]

and daddy is a top scientist...

The reason SODIS is the best method is because it costs nothing. It involves using plastic water bottles which exist in every 3rd world country and makes them in to something useful. It involves no cost in poverty stricken countries. And it involves no chemicals or products from western corporations who love making the poor dependent on their products. Also notice the comp sponsor was 3m and she used its products.

[jackbrightside]

shes indian, worlds apart from white kids

[jackbrightside]

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