A seventh-grade student in Texas has turned a fascination with marine life into an unusual science project. He has built his own remote-operated underwater vehicle to investigate the health of neighborhood retention ponds.
Caden Terence Pohlkamp, a seventh-grader from Brookside Intermediate School in Friendswood, Texas, studied 12 retention ponds in his community as part of his research project. His work earned him a place among the finalists of the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge, according to the Society for Science.
