High School Science competition winners that actually take their work to practics

Factual Questions
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We occasionally hear of big fancy well funded science competitions that announce some kid has invented a wonderful device or research that will make a big splash. Then…nothing…I can’t think of any high school winning ‘science fair’ project at the national level in recent years that made popular press…and actually resulted in the promise being fulfilled.

There may be various reasons for it, but I’d like to know if any kid who won one of these competitions ever saw it result in a significant product or improvement. There’s gotta be some, but is seems like the vast majority of these just make the news one day never to be heard of again.

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Here’s one who is working on it:

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Related, though not quite the same since he couldn’t afford to attend high school and lives in an area where things like science fairs are thin on the ground:

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Not sure if this works as its too early to tell. Infection detecting sutures through a pH change hasn’t been shown to work yet.

Yes, she’s a CEO of her company, but I think her celebrity lies in who she is, rather than a breakthrough in a new scientific or medical product