14-Year-Old Wiz Kid Wins $25,000 Prize for Inventive Soap That Battles Skin Cancer
Heman Bekele, a 14-year-old ninth-grader from Annandale, Virginia, has been named “America’s top young scientist” after inventing a bar of soap that could potentially treat melanoma, a dangerous form of skin cancer. His invention earned him the top prize of $25,000 in the 3M 2023 Young Scientist Challenge. Melanoma is a deadly skin cancer that…