Ken Burgener was proud to learn that a student he had mentored had won a prestigious award in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in June 2015.For her work on aquaponics, 10th-grader Stephanie Vaughn won a water technology award and a $1,000 cash prize, presented by the Saudi Arabian King Abdul-Aziz & His Companions Foundation, for Giftedness and Creativity. Her project showed that invasive plants could be used to reduce nutrients in wastewater and indicated that biofuels could be extracted from the water hyacinths and water lettuce grown in her experiment.It was one of the high points in Burgener’s
