Meet Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells into chitosan, improved polluted Rio Grande water and designed a self-dosing cleanup raft
Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells into chitosan (Image Credit: Society for Science) A fishing trip along the Rio Grande led a La Joya, Texas, seventh-grader to investigate whether discarded shellfish shells could help remove pollution from water. Nathan Gael Montelongo became interested in the problem after a … Read more