our producer, tamika cody, met up with the high school freshman and brings us his story in his own words name is heman bekele. i'm 14 years old and i just recently won the 3 a.m. young scientist challenge for creating a bar of soap that can help treat skin cancer from a very young age. growing up in ethiopia, i always saw people who were getting hit by the hot sun, and when they did end up getting diseases such as skin cancer, the prices were truly either inequitable or inaccessible to so many people. the average price of skin cancer treatment globally is almost $40,000, and that's an outrageous price and a number that i hope to fix slowly through products like these, which find a more innovative and different way to go about treating skin cancers like basal cell skin carcinoma, which are normally super expensive to fight against. so the main reason why i chose to even do this was just to find a more affordable and accessible route to treating the same type of diseases. the product that i worked on developing is this product called scts, and that stands for skin cancer treating soap. it'