{"id":199212,"date":"2024-11-10T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/14-year-old-wins-americas-top-young-scientist-for-inventing-pesticide-detector-for-fruits-and-vegetables"},"modified":"2024-11-10T19:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T01:45:45","slug":"14-year-old-wins-americas-top-young-scientist-for-inventing-pesticide-detector-for-fruits-and-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/14-year-old-wins-americas-top-young-scientist-for-inventing-pesticide-detector-for-fruits-and-vegetables","title":{"rendered":"14-Year-old Wins \u2018America\u2019s Top Young Scientist\u2019 for Inventing Pesticide Detector For Fruits and Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/14-year-old-wins-americas-top-young-scientist-for-inventing-pesticide-detector-for-fruits-and-vegetables2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 9th grader from Snellville, Georgia, has won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, after inventing a handheld device designed to detect pesticide residues on produce.<\/p>\n<p>Sirish Subash set himself apart with his AI-based sensor to win the grand prize of $25,000 cash and the prestigious title of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Young Scientist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like most inventors, Sirish was intrigued with curiosity and a simple question. His mother always insisted that he wash the fruit before eating it, and the boy wondered if the preventative action actually did any good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 9th grader from Snellville, Georgia, has won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, after inventing a handheld device designed to detect pesticide residues on produce. Sirish Subash set himself apart with his AI-based sensor to win the grand prize of $25,000 cash and the prestigious title of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Young Scientist.\u201d Like most inventors, Sirish [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}