Paige Brown, a senior from Bangor High School, has successfully crafted an effective way to pull destructive phosphorus from a stream by using a seaweed gel combined with aluminum and magnesium. With the use of some hair clips and a block of foam, she has created a filter from the globs of mixture that she herself perfected. Polluted water has endangered billions of people’s lives in many countries where access to clean water is very scarce. Brown’s design has the potential to reach and help people around the world. The young inventor has already been accepted to Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and Yale.