Q&A: This scientist developed a soap that could help fight skin cancer. He's 14.

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Heman Bekele is not your typical high school student. Rather than spending his free time playing video games or staring at his phone, this 14 year-old from Fairfax, Virginia was calling professors and conducting experiments, all to invent a product he hopes could help change the world.

His goal is to create a soap that could treat skin cancer, and to make it affordable for everyone who needs it.

His work won him the grand prize in this year's 3M Young Scientist's Challenge, a competition that encourages kids to think of unique ways to solve everyday problems.