A Baker Junior High School seventh grader has earned a national award for turning banana and plantain starch into bioplastic. Rye Lynn Rost, 13, won the $2,500 second-place Technology Award at the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge, the nation's premier middle school STEM competition. Rost was one of 30 finalists selected from nearly 2,000 applicants representing 47...
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