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2022 winner
David Fankhauser
Switzerland
David is an aspiring engineer from Switzerland who is excited about the potential for technology to combat world issues such as plastic in our environment. For his Rise project, David published an app that detects microplastics by scanning consumer products with a smartphone camera. David won gold at the International Young Naturalists’ Tournament, excelled at national math competitions, and is a builder at Civics Unplugged. He hopes to devote his future to solving the big problems he identifies.