High School Student Honoured by Obama for her Algae Fuel Efforts
Sara Volz, a 17-year-old high school student from Colorado Springs, Colo., was the $100,000 winner of the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search for her work developing algae biofuels, and she was honored by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House.
Volz has spent the last four years on making fuel from these organisms, tinkering with their nitrogen supply and genetics to try to make them produce more oil.
