{"id":16713,"date":"2013-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130627-10n"},"modified":"2013-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T22:00:00","slug":"google-science-in-action-winner-for-2013-elif-bilgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/google-science-in-action-winner-for-2013-elif-bilgin\/","title":{"rendered":"Google &#8216;Science in Action&#8217; Winner for 2013: Elif Bilgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Genius,\u201d Thomas Edison famously said, &#8220;is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.\u201d He would have found a kindred spirit in Elif Bilgin, 16, of Istanbul, Turkey, winner of the 2013 $50,000 Science in Action award, part of the third annual Google Science Fair. The award honors a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge; it should be innovative, easy to put into action and reproducible in other communities.<\/p>\n<p>Bilgin spent two years toiling away on her project to develop a bioplastic from discarded banana peels, enduring 10 failed trials of plastics that weren\u2019t strong enough or that decayed rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/at-scientific-american\/2013\/06\/27\/science-in-action-winner-for-2013-elif-bilgin\/\" >blogs.scientificamerican.com\/at-scientific-american\/2013\/06\/27\/science-in-action-winner-for-2013-elif-bilgin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: Mountain View campus, starch, cellulose, insulation, electric cables, cosmetic prostheses, health application<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Genius,&rdquo; Thomas Edison famously said, &#8220;is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.&rdquo; He would have found a kindred spirit in Elif Bilgin, 16, of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[5227],"class_list":["post-16713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-google-science-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16713"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}