Green Science Fair Winners

Instructables and Discover Magazine are happy to announce the winners of the Discover Green Science Fair for a Better Planet Contest!

We asked you to show us some great green ideas and you responded with a flood of them. Over 200 Instructables were submitted over the past few weeks and tons of useful information has been put out there to help others with their own green projects. You are all an inspiration, truly.

Thank you for putting so much time and effort into these Instructables. As always, we wish we had more prizes to give out.

Now, on with the winners!

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First 10 Entries

For jumping into the contest early, the authors of these Instructables will receive a Discover Magazine t-shirt.

Ways to be green	How to get FREE 9 Volt Batteries	Recycle plastic grocery bags into Loons!	Tips on how to improve gas mileage	All-Natural Incense Burner
Science Fair Display Board	How to recycle an old sweater	How to Boycott the Bottle	Easy Seed Starter	Supercharged Lemon

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Runners-Up

The authors of these Instructables will each receive a copy of 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything, a book from the Editors at Discover magazine.

Mini Wooden Portable Compost Bin	How to build a 72Volt electric motorcycle	How to Make an Easy Inverted Planter	£5 Japanese lamp from recycled materials	Trickle charging auto-switching LED helmet
Make your own plastic tote bag from recycled plastic bags	From old Tourist Map to Gift Bag	How to Make A Solar Powered Fan!	solar lawn mower	How To Smell Pollutants

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Third Prize

The authors of these Instructables will each receive an Eton FR150 Microlink, a Solar-Powered, Crank-powered Portable Radio with Flashlight and Cell Phone Charger.

Cheap solar tracker

Organic planting pots from newspapers

Bike Generator

Recycled Denim Shopping Bag

The Green Pail Retained Heat Cooker

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Second Prize

The authors of these Instructables will each receive a Sansa Express 1GB MP3 player, Instructables Robot t-shirt, patch, and stickers.

Solar Powered Trike

Urban Homestead Garden (squarefoot gardening abridged)

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First Prize

The author of this Instructable will receive a Celestron Skyscout that uses advanced GPS technology with point and click convenience to identify thousands of stars, planets, constellations and more. Plus Instructables Robot t-shirt, patch, and stickers.

Make Your Own Biodiesel Processor

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Thank you to all of our judges for helping to choose the winners.

Colin Bulthaup (CTO of Potenco, co-founder Squid Labs)
Christy Canida (Instructables)
Stephen Cass (Senior Editor at Discover Magazine)
Saul Griffith (President of Makani Power, co-founder Squid Labs, MacArthur Fellow)
Corwin Hardham (CTO of Makani Power, co-founder Squid Labs)
Jeremy Jacquot (treehugger.com, USC student in environmental sciences)
Tom Kostigen (co-author of The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time)
Ed Lewis (Instructables)
Corey Powell (Executive Editor at Discover Magazine)
Sarah Richardson (Senior Editor at Discover Magazine)
Gemma Shusterman (Media Lab grad, Juror for the 2008 SIGGRAPH art gallery)
Tyghe Trimble (News Editor at Discover Magazine)
Eric Wilhelm (Instructables, co-founder Squid Labs)
Daniel Wilson (Roboticist, author of How to Build a Robot Army)
Laura Wright (Senior Editor of On Earth Magazine, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council)