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

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.

Nguyễn Minh Nga Source: csiro.au