From her earliest questions (“Why is the sky blue?”) to her realization of the boundless frontiers of discovery, Ilda Ismaili, a music and STEM student, has had a passion for science. Along with Anela Arifi, she took part in a variety of competitions before attaining the pinnacle of student science: the 2015 Google Science Fair.

Ilda and Anela’s project analyzed the expanding energy needs of their home country, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and proposed a solution drawing on the abundant poultry waste in their region. The result is a two-stage reactor that synthesized high-quality biodiesel from chicken fat and feathers.

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