A young man has folded his origami hobby into to a potential career path as an innovator, having used the Japanese artform to create a structure capable of holding 10,000 times its own weight.

His demonstration, which included extensive testing and personal invention, took first prize at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge in October, giving the lad $25,000 to fold—into his wallet.

14-year-old Miles Wu from New York City has been folding origami animals and insects for years. He got so good at it that he has even started designing his own folding designs.

His eventual award-winning idea came from studying how origami had previously been used as a field for innovation in medicine. It was during January’s wildfires in Southern California and Hurricane Helene, when W

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