Extraordinary Achievement Motivation Thousands of students from 120 countries compete each year in the Google Science Fair. Showing off their trophies —and their grins—are the 2013 winners: 14-year-old Viney Kumar, from Australia, who invented a signalling system for emergency vehicles; 15-year-old Ann Makosinski, from Canada, who designed a flashlight without batteries or moving parts; 16-year-old Elif Bilgin, from Turkey, who developed a method to create bioplastics from banana peels; and 17-year-old Eric Chen, from the U.S., who discovered a new approach to finding better anti-flu medications.