Teen's Simple Science Fair Project Could Save Government Millions

What began as a middle-school student's science fair project could save the federal government millions of dollars -- and all it would require is a switch to a different font.
Fourteen-year-old Suvir Mirchandani has adapted his sixth-grader science fair project from Dorseyville Middle School in Pittsburgh -- a study of the cost savings incurred by switching the font in his school’s paper handouts -- to show exactly how much money the bigwigs in Washington, D.C., could save if they followed suit.
Spoiler alert: It's a lot.
His project showed that switching the school's paper font from Times New Roman to Garamond would save his school about $21,000 a year in ink costs. Spurred on by a teacher, Mirchandani submitted his research to the Journal of Emerging Investigators, which publishes the work of high school and middle-school students, CNN reported.