“I think people around the world don’t really understand how serious water pollution and the energy crisis is.”

Vision: Affordable clean water and electricity. Action: The 17-year-old developed a device that purifies dirty water and seperately extracts energy from the waste to create clean energy. Lam hopes her device can be scaled up to industrial size to benefit more people and potentially save millions of lives around the world. www.GoogleScienceFair.com