“Is there a project here that has blown your mind?” Bill Whitaker asks a student at iGem. “Almost every single one,” says Avani Karthik, a high school senior from Georgia. Her team worked on new ways to detect and treat Lyme disease. Great Bay in Shenzhen, China, developed a new enzyme for treating indoor mold. Other high school projects included designing crops to grow on Mars and eye drops to treat cataracts. #iGEM #syntheticbiology #highschool #sciencecompetition