Charlotte Böhning and Mary Lempres, both MID ’23, are finalists for the 2022 Lexus Design Award. Their Chitofoam material research project reuses discarded polystyrene foam as food for mealworms and then uses their exoskeletons for an environmentally friendly alternative to polystyrene foam.
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