Sara Volz Experiments Algae in a $100K Laboratory (Video)

Sara Volz breeds algae
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Sara Volz, a 17-year-old Science genius, is spending her time breeding new algae inside her $100,000 state-of-the-art laboratory in Colorado Springs. Her project is aimed towards converting algae into an alternative source of fuel.

She received $100,000 reward for winning the Intel Science Talent Search recently. Volz is an incoming freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next fall. The senior high student revealed that she "want to go into academia, so do basically what I'm doing, except with better labs."