{"id":226229,"date":"2025-12-01T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/14-year-old-wins-prize-for-origami-that-can-hold-10000-times-its-own-weight"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:13:05","slug":"14-year-old-wins-prize-for-origami-that-can-hold-10000-times-its-own-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/14-year-old-wins-prize-for-origami-that-can-hold-10000-times-its-own-weight","title":{"rendered":"14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/14-year-old-wins-prize-for-origami-that-can-hold-10000-times-its-own-weight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called Miura-ori, which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects,\u201d Wu told Business Insider. \u201cRecently I\u2019ve been designing my own origami, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called Miura-ori, which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision. \u201cI\u2019ve been folding origami as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226229","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}