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Second Generations (136) Minh Nga Nguyen winner of the 2018 BHP Billiton Foundation Science and Engineering Awards

Minh Nga Nguyen

Nguyễn Minh Nga Source: csiro.au

With aspirations to become an environmental engineer, Minh Nga Nguyen, winner of the Investigations category, used agricultural by-products such as corn husks, bamboo scraps and rice waste, to create a biochar product with the dual capability of filtering water and then being used as a fertilizer.


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With aspirations to become an environmental engineer, Minh Nga Nguyen, winner of the Investigations category, used agricultural by-products such as corn husks, bamboo scraps and rice waste, to create a biochar product with the dual capability of filtering water and then being used as a fertilizer.



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