{"id":81020,"date":"2018-07-29T03:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/a-7th-grader-built-an-underwater-rover-to-save-oceans-from-microplastics"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:14:24","slug":"a-7th-grader-built-an-underwater-rover-to-save-oceans-from-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/a-7th-grader-built-an-underwater-rover-to-save-oceans-from-microplastics","title":{"rendered":"A 7th-Grader Built an Underwater Rover to Save Oceans From Microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-7th-grader-built-an-underwater-rover-to-save-oceans-from-microplastics.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The energetic pre-teen has the full support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngscientistlab.com\/node\/4608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ann Fornof, Ph.D.<\/a>, a polymer scientist with Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, who is her assigned mentor and is advising Du over the summer on her ROV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes mentoring Anna so exciting is that she has all of the qualities \u2014 all of those essential ingredients \u2014 to be a great scientist,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngscientistlab.com\/node\/4608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fornof<\/a> explains to <em>Inverse<\/em>. \u201cShe is passionate about science and its potential to have a positive impact on society; she is curious about how things work and how she can utilize science to better our environment; and she works hard to make creative advancements and solve any problems that she encounters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Du, who loves the ocean and marine animals, is set on helping the natural world through her engineering. With her infrared ROV, says Fornoff, Du is \u201clooking with a different lens at a substantial challenge that many scientists and engineers would like to address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/47488-young-innovator-anna-du-rov-microplastic\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/47488-young-innovator-anna-du-rov-microplastic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The energetic pre-teen has the full support of Ann Fornof, Ph.D., a polymer scientist with Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, who is her assigned mentor and is advising Du over the summer on her ROV. \u201cWhat makes mentoring Anna so exciting is that she has all of the qualities \u2014 all of those essential ingredients \u2014 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81020","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=81020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81145,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81020\/revisions\/81145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}