This brilliant 13-year-old figured out how to make clean energy using a device that costs $5
Maanasa Mendu thinks she’s cracked the code on how to make wind and solar energy affordable. On Tuesday, Mendu, a 13-year-old from Ohio, won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her work in creating a cost-effective « solar leaves » design to create energy. In addition to winning the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist, » she gets…