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Teen Enviro-Scientist

  • December 19, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Eighth-grader Maria Elena Grimmett researched groundwater contamination by sulfamethazine, an antibiotic, and found that a substance called MN250 could help remove the drug. She’s won prizes, and her research continues. In 2011, MIT named a minor planet after her!

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