Curing Cancer in High School - Jack Andraka

When a close family friend of Jack Andraka's passed away from pancreatic cancer, he turned from an intelligent teenager who created explosions in his family's garage, to a focused biological innovator. Current pancreatic cancer tests leave little to be desired: 85% of pancreatic cancers are detected when there is less than a 2% chance of survival. But Andraka, with the help of labs and professorial oversight at Johns Hopkins University, has developed a test that is much more accurate and costs only cents.