A 17-year-old just won $150,000 for her ingenious method of cleaning polluted streams

A 17-year-old just won $150,000 for her ingenious method of cleaning polluted streams Paige Brown is the MacGyver of Bangor, Maine. After extracting a gel called “alginate” from some seaweed, Brown mixed the substance with some aluminum and magnesium and then balled it up into multiple globs to be placed inside the mouths of dollar-store read more A 17-year-old just won $150,000 for her ingenious method of cleaning polluted streams