This California teen started a nonprofit to help kids learn about science. He just got accepted into Stanford - CNN

... "I want kids to know that science is all around us, it doesn't need to be in a super fancy lab, with millions of dollars of equipment," he said. "It can be with the battery that you find in your smoke detector, or in the leaves of the trees outside, or in a potato."...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/cali-teen-science-stanford-trnd/index.html