Indian American Sahil Doshi won the 2014 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
Sahil Doshi, 14 year-old boy from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has won the award for his innovative eco-friendly battery design. He was awarded $ 25,000 and named young America's 'top young scientist'. He also won an adventure trip to Costa Rica.
Doshi, a pupil from Upper St. Clair School District’s Upper St. Clair High School, competed with nine other finalists on Monday to win the coveted prize.
Determined to help 1.2 billion people worldwide who lack access to electricity and the rising levels of toxic air pollution, Doshi created an energy storage device named 'PolluCell'. 'PolluCell' converts carbon dioxide into electricity and lowers harmful greenhouse gases while offering power for household use.
The competition gave the finalists an opportunity to work directly with 3M scientists. The scientists mentored them and provided guidance to the finalists to develop their idea from a theoretical concept into an actual prototype. The final also included two other challenges in addition to presenting the prototypes, which was to combine multiple 3M technologies to yield new solutions and building a simple machine using science and engineering principles. After a duration of 3 months the finalists shared their completed innovations with a panel of distinguished judges including the host of Discovery Channel’s MythBuster Kari Byron and Peython Robertson, a seventh grader who won the competition last year.
Bill Goodwin, President and CEO, Discovery Education said the Young Scientist Challenge "celebrates the wonder of science and students who embrace innovation and creativity, providing unique learning opportunities to the students ".
“At 3M, scientific exploration is a way of life. It has been a remarkable experience to watch these young scientists embrace the passion and innovative spirit of our science community through the summer mentorship program to create amazing solutions to everyday problems,” added Jesse Singh, Senior Vice President of 3M organization.
Other finalists were also awarded prizes ranging from US $500-1,000 including a student adventure trip to Costa Rica for second, third and fourth placed winners.
The competition awarded second, third and fourth placed winners US $ 1,000 prize and student adventure trip to Costa Rica while the rest of the finalists got $ 500 gift cards.
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