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flag Fourteen-year-old Miles Wu won $25,000 for inventing ultra-strong, foldable shelters using origami, inspired by disaster relief needs.

flag Fourteen-year-old Miles Wu of New York City won $25,000 at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for designing ultra-strong, foldable structures using origami principles, with his models supporting over 9,000 times their weight. flag His research, inspired by the Miura-ori fold, aims to enable rapid-deployment disaster relief shelters. flag The competition, organized by Society for Science, honored 30 finalists from nearly 2,000 applicants, awarding over $100,000 in total and $1,000 grants to each finalist’s school. flag Other winners included Akhil Nagori and Evann Sun for low-cost text-to-speech glasses, Peter Fernández Dulay for exposing gender bias in AI scientist images, and Camila Isabel Gonzalez-Thompson for dengue antibody research in Puerto Rico.

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