Saturday 29th November 2025

A soy-based rubber mulch and playground surface took home the top prize for the 2022 Student Soybean Innovation Competition.

Team Smulch members Libby Plassard, a freshman majoring in business management and finance; Ethan Miller, a freshman studying biochemistry; and Zuhal Cakir, a student working on a Ph.D. in chemical engineering took home $20,000 during the award ceremony Wednesday at the Purdue University Memorial Union.

Plassard tells Brownfield about their product.

“We wanted to fix a real-world problem.

   

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