15-year-old Fairfax student, Heman Bekele was named the 2024 Kid of the Year by Time Magazine.
Heman is his work on creating a bar of soap that can treat Skin cancer! In October 2023 he was named “America’s Top Young Scientist” and he won 3M’s Young Scientist Challenge for the soap he created.
Today he’s starting his Sophomore year at at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County. But last week he was working at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health working on his bar of soap and testing it.
He’s still working toward acquiring FDA certification.