In Boca Raton, Florida, 15-year-old Hannah Herbst built a roughly $12 ocean-current energy probe with a 3D-printed propeller, lit LEDs in Intracoastal tests, and won $25,000 as America’s Top Young Scientist in 2015
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Hannah Herbst won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in October 2015, at the age of 15, with a propeller generator that turned the movement of water in the Boca Raton Intracoastal Waterway into enough electricity to light a set of LEDs. The prize was $25,000 and the title America’s Top Young Scientist.
She called the device BEACON, for Bringing Electricity Access to Countries through Ocean Energy. None of the 2015 coverage, from the press release to Business Insider, F
She called the device BEACON, for Bringing Electricity Access to Countries through Ocean Energy. None of the 2015 coverage, from the press release to Business Insider, F
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