[CPEO-BIF] Indiana middle schooler's brownfields experiment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Middle schooler's project aimed at cleaning contaminated soil

By MERANDA WATLING
Lafayette Journal and Courier (IN)
May 11, 2009


Arthi Puri and Rani Iyer were looking for a project that could help the 
environment.

The pair, a seventh-grader at West Lafayette Jr.-Sr. High School and a 
sixth-grader at Happy Hollow Elementary, found the Siemens We Can Change 
the World Challenge. The competition asked middle school students to 
come up with a community-based greening project.

Arthi and Rani worked with their mentor, Purdue University agronomy 
professor Paul Schwab, to research ways to cheaply and efficiently 
remediate brownfields, or abandoned land likely contaminated by 
industrial pollutants, into usable space.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.jconline.com/article/20090511/NEWS/905110304

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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