A soy-based rubber mulch and playground surface took home the top prize for the 2022 Student Soybean Innovation Competition.
Team Smulch members Libby Plassard, a freshman majoring in business management and finance; Ethan Miller, a freshman studying biochemistry; and Zuhal Cakir, a student working on a Ph.D. in chemical engineering took home $20,000 during the award ceremony Wednesday at the Purdue University Memorial Union.
Plassard tells Brownfield about their product.
“We wanted to fix a real-world problem.
